When we fail to follow instructions we end up paying

Jun 14, 2012 Letters

Dear Editor,
I regret not visiting the “Bounty Supermarket, Water Street” and make a purchase as I was instructed to do by a recovering patient who handed me $2000 to get her some fruits from that supermarket on Monday, June 11, 2012.
Having had to dwell in the downtown area around the Stabroek Market, for no particular reason I decided to go over to the fruits vendors area close to the KFC building to make that purchase of the fruits.
I approached female vendor #1 and made enquiries about the price for a pineapple and she said to me that her price is $300. I didn’t like the price so I looked over to female vendor #2 and her next door neighbour and her advertising price on a cardboard read $260 and it was actually the same in size as the one from vendor #1. I just felt that vendor number#1 wasn’t too happy.
I said to vendor #2 that I need a pineapple and handed her a $1000 bill and before she handed me back the change, I asked her if I took two pineapples, would she take $500.00 for both of them and she agreed and handed me the two pineapples.
After a few seconds went by and me standing in front of the stall for my change of $500, I requested to have my change..Lo and behold, this woman who is of “Afro Guyanese descent and vendor #2” began to literally shout towards me and claiming that I only give her $500 and the thousand dollar bill she has in front of her is from some woman that give it to her.
For a moment I thought she was joking, but it was when her neighbour who is also of Afro Guyanese descent and vendor #1 butted in and also to her loudest came in defense and said that indeed the thousand bill vendor #2 has is from some woman that give it to her.
It was then that I realised I was blatantly conned by these two vendors who apparently work hand in hand to fleece customers.
The noble words I left with vendor #2 is that “I hope you have a great life with that $500.”
Little do these two barefaced bandits know that, I have for many years being a “Tourism Advocate” for Guyana and all of us are to benefit in many ways whenever tourists visit. If this is the behaviour they have embarked on, one just has to wonder if we will ever move towards the better.
I say to the foreign nationals based in Guyana and to the visiting ones, stay far away from those fruits vendors who sell in front of or at the side of the downtown KFC building..I can’t forsee myself supporting that particular area of fruits vending.
Upon reaching my destination, I related to the the recovering patient about the ordeal/experience and her words to me was that, I instructed you to go purchase fruits for me from the “Bounty Supermarket…Water Street” and never did she say from the fruits vendors I had a shocking experience with.
T.Pemberton

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