`Thanks for that’

Going in I admit I’m frequently complaining about things wrong in Guyana, and I make no apologies for that; we have many things wrong and we should do more complaining – me included.  But it’s also true that we get so cranked up about one shocker or the other on the negative list, that we often don’t stop to see the things around that we should be thankful for, or as the purists would want us to word it, “the things around for which we should be grateful.”  (You tussle with the purists, if you’re so inclined; I stopped wasting my time on them long ago.)

The things we should be grateful for, because of their very nature, will vary widely from person to person, so you may very well disagree with what I put in that category, but here are a few things, just this week, that left me thinking “thanks for that.”

This may be a small one to you, but for me, driving the East Coast road every day, there is a very pronounced ridge in the asphalt as you approach the bridge over the Ogle koker trench.  It’s there eastbound and westbound, and your car’s suspension gets quite a bang as you go over the ridge.  Road users have learned that if you veer hard left approaching the bridge that the