Excerpt of a recorded conversation with Granny -
"In that time of the war we were under British rule so we used to bad talk the Americans and this that and the other, so when the Americans came here to...what you call the places?
The bases.
The bases. We always used to be bad talking them...and as we lived in Sangre Grande, they used to go to Manzanilla to have a bath...the Americans eh, the soldiers...and we started to time them. They used to pass there about two in the day...and we decided to pelt rotten grapefruits (at them.)"
..."We all stood up on the top (of the house) waiting for them and we start to pelt them with rotten grapefruits. Ah hah! And they jumped out from the cars to come inside the yard *laughter* to chase us...but you know when you’re that age...Now we couldn’t make noise...because our grandfather and our aunt were sleeping...so we had to pelt to the back because...they came right in you know through the front step! So that was one fright and one stupid thing we did.
To pelt the Americans?
Yeah, with rotten grapefruits. I mean what a thing, eh. And I think I told you that when we were pretty young (my sister, my brother, myself, and a very close friend of ours) and who grew up with us and everything...we used to go and lie down across the road, right across the road.
Why?
Waiting for a car to come. Nobody...the older people inside didn’t know, you know. We used to lie down - across the road eh! Thank god in those days a car would pass like every hour or something *laughter*. But you ever heard of anything so crazy?
So that’s what y’all did for fun?
Yes! *laughter* "
- November, 2010.
