AFTER ALMOST 25 YEARS, a woman got the call of her life. It was from her deadbeat dad.
He had left her when she was just about 15 years old and headed for the mother country, seemingly never to look back.
So, it indeed was a big surprise that he found her and actually called. He said he was sorry and wanted to make up and was therefore coming home for a vacation. After all, home is where the daughter is.
In popped dad two weeks later, tears and all and even 100 pounds sterling he delivered. He promised more, lots more to come. After all, there were two barrels in the port.
Daughter dearest rushed to a leading furniture store and hire purchased a bed while flashing a broad smile. Her boyfriend’s questions about the sudden nature of the called were dismissed.
Dad silenced him with a jeans shirt.
As days went by daddy dearest became friendly with the neighbours and even helped to pull some grass from around the house. Then the barrels arrived. Out popped two tins of corned beef and a large onion to boot, almost the size of a watermelon with the declaration, “These are for you”.
A confidante told P&S that in three days’ time “deadbeat” was gone again as vacation time had ended and it became clear that he only wanted a place to stay on probably his last visit to Barbados. And he chose to use his daughter all over again for the occasion.
Shares going a-begging
$20 000 in shares are up for grabs for any staff member who is so inclined to invest, and the boss will co-sign to guarantee approval of the loan.
No one knows the exact cost of a share but they are being offered in $20 000 batches. Sources say that the empire is falling and he needs a bailout, but since no one would come to his rescue he is offering internal shares.
He is now at 3 500 and falling. But then again he said he wanted it all to come crashing down so that he could build it back up. And, he is getting his wish.
But many doubt he will be able to rise from the rubble, after all he is no young boy. He is ageing old man and ideas have long left him.
Many believe it’s a wrap on this “old woman” and her final breath which appears not far away may not allow her to see the future in the distance.
Leech written off
He likes to write, and he is very unreliable, but rest assured, if you put money in his hands to pay a bill he will spend it, and the bill will remain unpaid.
And his ex found this out the hard way when she gave this part-time scribe $4 000 to pay a bill and he has not been seen or heard from since.
She has since dealt with the matter and has moved on. But this time, with a woman, since she has disavowed herself of men and is now resting comfortably in the arms of her new-found female lover. Residents say they don’t know when last they have seen her this happy and are glad that she has dropped this good-for-nothing leech.
Right-hand man busy
A politico who is seen near a roundabout having breakfast “morningly” is heavily greasing the palms of a “bandy man” in a big way.
The “bandy man”, who likes pornography more than the average Joe, can’t be found on any weekend in the island. Insiders say he is about the politico’s business making this dynamic duo filthy rich. The politico, who swore that he would never be poor again, is unable to make these trips himself, so he is therefore being aided and abetted by his second man.
There isn’t a young girl around who doesn’t know of the “dirty old man” and his cravings for grease and girls, but P&S will put this one in reverse and turn off the ignition to this for the time being.
