Red! I love red. Red is one of dem powerful colours that mankind does always be fascinated with.
I truly loved REDjet, and wish them could go back in the air. Them good fuh everybody, even LIAT. I remember de song Lady In Red and used to sing it off-key at de top on my lungs, especially when I was near a certain lady that I had my eyes on. And while some men does get basodie when them see a lady in a white pants, red does send shivers down me spine.
And if yuh mix red and white, wha loss! Looka trouble; call de police. What lady does not get weak in de knees iffing pun she birthday she get some red roses and chocolates and dinner at Champers?
De only colour shirt I got more of than red is pink, wid red socks to match and, courtesy some mixed up washing wid a red T-shirt that leak red, some red underwear too! Red is fuh special occasions, like Valentine’s and iffing de lady step out in a Pauline Bellamy red dress, next thing ah would be caught red-handed down by de Egyptian Jew looking to put a down payment pun a ring! Red is a dangerous colour. A red sports car deadly. My bank and me don’t see eye to eye pun red. Them always reminding me that the account in de red and insisting that I do something ’bout it.
A friend of mine say he love a red woman, and I know that Sparrow feel so too ’cause he tell de Vendor years ago that fuh he it is red till he dead! Every Bajan know dat it used to be a red Ju-C to drink, and de Trinis know that nothing does beat a red Solo! In football, who is not a fan of de Red Devils? Well, Stetson Babb fuh sure, but red powerful.
Even the communists chose red. I even see a perfume called red. De Vendor used to eat plenty red meat one time, but now it is red still, except it is de red snapper, soft and juicy. Can anything beat a red sorrel, seriously? And when a Julie mango ready fuh de sucking, it got to be red.
Red is dread!
Ever wonder why traffic lights got red fuh stopping? When not blue or brown? Why red? Why was it not Brown Riding Hood? Why red? Why red advertising? I don’t know. Ask Jevan Jutiger.
He clearly like red real bad!
And iffing de Vendor gine have a wine, it got to be red. Don’t mind all de fancy names and the years. It still got to be red. Check Carnival time and see how much red in de costumes.
Yellow and blue is nice colours and I got a few yellow shirts. Not as many as de red, but I like them, too, though yuh got to admit that red roses would win any day against yellow roses.
It seems though dat red is not fuh everybody and de folks up at CBC, de Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation, was planning a big red fete but apparently one phone call to Bay Street had people up there seeing red and de plug get pull pun de fete and nuff people left red-faced. I guess it got nothing to do wid de fact dat red is de colour of the opposition BLP and yellow is de colour of de Dems! I only hope de promoter not left in de red, financially, like CBC!
I, Market Vendor, gone fuh now. You have a blessed and a wonderful day, yuh hear?