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September 1, 2011
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Wifey an Matey Funeral Mix Up

with Ragashanti

Good-up good-up respek to mi Tambareen Fambily an all a mi Mix Up an Blenda linky-linky. An of course, propa respek to all listeners pon Tambareen Radio ova mixupyaad.com. An straight blessings mi seh.

Congratulations to Yohan Blake on an amazing run and a very impressive accomplishment in being the youngest smaddy to eva win di 100 metres World Championships. Well done mi boss! An big up Veronica fi get such a bad start an still run dung di field an manage fi come second. An big up all a wi oda athlete dem weh a shell dung di place ova Daegu.

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Fambily, hear da drama ya. Dis man an him wife married fi many years. Dem have two pickney. Di wife say di man is a great husband. Him treat har good, neva abuse har, and is a great provider fi she an di pickney dem. Dem live inna nice house an have nice cars an all dese tings.

Di ongle ting is dat di man also have a bunna gyal fi many years. Him an di bunna gyal (matey) a come fram far too. Di matey treat him good an him treat har good. Di matey was very loving to him an neva bun him wid any bady else. Di matey was always very respectful a di wife an neva yet dis di wife, an all mek sure shi remind di man bout important tings weh him need fi do fi di wife. Most people jus have it say di man respect an love both him wife and di matey. Him pretty much gi di two a dem all dat they need.

As it turn out, di matey get sick an passed away. Wen di matey dead it mash up di man wicked, wicked. Den hear ya now, di wife guh to di man an say shi know bout di matey all dese years. Shi say shi neva like wa him did a do, but shi suffa through him lies an work wid him di whole time. Shi say all shi a ask him fi do now is to NOT go to di matey funeral. Shi say given dat she has been so understanding she's asking di man fi do har dis one big favour an doan go to di matey funeral.

Fambily, wa unu woulda suggest to di man. Mek wi acknowledge say nobady like fi get bun, suh di husband shouldn't bun him wife inna di first place. But given that di husband otherwise treat him wife an him family real good, an given that di matey did treat him so good fi many, many years, should the husband go pay his last respects to di matey? Or should he grant di wife har important wish an doan go to di matey funeral?

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Bway, mi a medz di ting an mi naa lie, mi cyaan really come up wid wat yuh could call the obviously right ansa. On di one hand, yuh waan side wid di wife an say di husband nuh fi guh di funeral as di man who is publicly recognised as di matey man cause dat woulda be a straight public diss to di wife. But on di oda hand, it woulda look real bad if di man neva guh di matey funeral afta all di years of she treating him so good. Is like if di matey done dead aready wa could be so bad in di man paying respects to har one last time.

Wa unu tink? Write me an mek mi know wa unu tink di man shoulda do. Mi sure say mi wi get some interesting responses fram unu.

Reach Ragashanti at mixupraga@gmail.com or PO Box 5866, Liguanea, PO, Kingston 6.

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