Holding My Breath

Several things are making me gasp and hoping that I can hold on to the air. This is a pot-pourri in no particular order.

• The number of adults in Barbados driving in the front of cars with their seat belts firmly attached, while their children do not wear belts in the rear. In some cases, you see the children hanging onto the door half out of an open window. As I said to a couple yesterday as they drove from the school car park, "When the car hits something, what do you expect is going to save the child?" They looked at me with such blank lack of understanding that I have to conclude they are morons.
• Amazement that the Barbados national secondary schools' championships were not televised by the Caribbean Broadcasting Corporations. Reports indicate that 'negotiations' are still going on. The championships started on Monday and finish today. Finger pointing by CBC indicates that they had not received permission from the organizers to broadcast the event live and that it will be shown next Tuesday. If Barbados wants to figure out why it does not excel at athletics, think about this farce as reflecting one element.
• Caribbean black men really are scared of physical contact with each other. So, go figure what is going through their minds when they see their beloved cricket team doing well.
• Caribbean women need to back off criticizing men of being on the down low. That's low down and lame and save you thinking seriously. Women cavort around hugging and kissing each other and freak out when they see two men showing close friendship. Figure out who has a problem and show some respect.
• Bewilderment at Madoff and his decades' long robbery of friends.
  
• Bewilderment at a father who would imprison his daughter for years and father seven children with her.
• My daughter's school principal lamented publicly last year how some parents are showing a tendency to 'disable their children' by doing everything for them. If you learn to do nothing when you are young how will you do anything when you grow up?