Dear Editor,
I couldn’t help but chuckle a laugh to myself, though it is a serious issue, when I read a story in your Tuesday edition (November 18) about a man being beaten by some “drink mates” because he didn’t want to stop playing a song that they did not like.

I think the article missed one very important point that should offer up some amusement, ie the name of the song that could have got his friends so angry that they would beat him because he didn’t take it off.

Immediately a few guesses came to my mind that would get a few drunken buddies mad. Now if these guys were celebrating and enjoying themselves they might not want to hear that they should drink “rum till I die,” or be reminded that “son-in-law must never live by mother-in-law,” but then if they were told to “pass the Courvoisier” when there was none, they could also be mad that someone wanted to “make love in the club” when they were really in a rum shop.

But when Guyanese are taking a ‘toops,’ the last thing they would want to be given is a lecture about life, so if this guy was telling them to “leave them young girls alone,” they may have thought that the best way to deal with him was to leave him “lost, lonely and helpless.”
I just find the story to be one that would find the humorous side of my fellow Guyanese. But seriously, we need to know the name of the song, as a precaution.

The more you live in and enjoy Guyana, the more you realize that after working from “9 to 5,” everything appears “just like in the movies.” Natural Black may have said it best.
Yours faithfully,
Gordon Moseley