When I was in Trinbago in 2011, one of my sisters took me to a shopping center. We went to a couple of clothing stores, but then we ended up in a book store. After paying for some books I asked the casher who buys books for the store?” She looked at me with a serious face then she said in a fake American accent, “We don’t buy books from Trinidad authors; we buy books from American authors.”

“I looked at her and smiled then I said, “Okay.” I turned to walk away, my sister looked at me smiling I chuckled and shook my head. As we walked out of the store I said, “She sounded so ignorant. Her attitude reminds me of a line in Proverbs, ‘The fool takes no delight in understanding, but rather in displaying what he thinks’. She did not know what I was going to say to her.”

“True. Sounded brainless,’ my sister said.

I said, “Her accent takes the cake. According to daddy, ‘Sometimes you have to leave de damn fool alone. They go make yuh sin yuh soul oui.” (Walk away from them.)