A goat bit and kicked me outside the AFC office

Jul 15, 2015 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

On Monday afternoon, I was in deep conversation with a group of second-tier leaders from the Alliance For Change outside the head office on Railway Line.
I was seated between Anil Mohanlall and Carlyle Goring. Next to me were Leon Hunt, Dellon Dalton and David Wren. Suddenly a herd of goats came charging up the road going east.
One goat left the group, passed Anil, ignored Carlyle and jumped on me and besmirched my immaculately white shirt. He bit me in my left side, kicked me in my neck region and jumped over my head and dashed up the road
Next to the AFC office is a little eatery named Ray’s snackette. The owner, Raymond, an Ogle airport official and his wife Dawn were in stitches over what they saw. So were Leon Hunt and Carlyle Goring. They were all laughing their head off.
Why did the goat bypass, Raymond, Anil, Carlyle, Leon, Dellon and David and seek my company?
None of the names mentioned here has the zodiacal sign of Capricorn. I am Capricorn. Capricorn is a goat. The answer as to why he ignored Anil who was closer to him and the rest of the AFC personnel is because he wanted to identify with me.
Animals are very sensible and sensitive things. Maybe more sensitive than humans.
They have senses that are stronger than Homo sapiens. Just half an hour before the world’s most destructive tsunami appeared on December 26, 2004 in Indonesia, the monkeys, birds and other species were running away.
They knew it was coming. Humans didn’t. The animals saved themselves, but 230,000 humans lost their lives. This impeccably black goat, without even a tinge of another colour on him, knew I was the person more connected to his species than any other person who was sitting on those two benches
So what becomes of me now? What happens when goat bite yuh?
When I was a baby, a donkey bit my father.
He was a municipal cleaner. In those days, they collected the garbage in a donkey cart. My father spent months in the hospital because he neglected the wound and it became infected and he picked up tetanus.
My mom told me a doctor named Kerry performed a miracle to save my father. His home was at the corner of Church and Camp Streets, where now stands the office of GO-Invest.
How strange life is. My wife worked for fourteen years at GO-Invest in the very building where Dr. Kerry, who saved my father’s life, once lived
As we are on the subject of GO-Invest, I never wrote about an incident that took place at GO-Invest with my wife. It is worth a tiny mention here so that Guyanese should know what Guyana was like under the Jagdeo/Ramotar cabal.
One day someone threw a huge rock at my wife’s head at GO-Invest. Her office faced the road. Her boss, Geoff Da Silva, thought it was a political act and moved my wife from that spot.
The PPP Government had few political mandarins who acted professionally and Geoff Da Silva was one of them. I owe him this mention. He protected my wife from the knives of the sadists all because she was Freddie Kissoon’s spouse. When he left to become the Ambassador to Venezuela, that was the end of my wife at GO-Invest. I honestly would recommend this man to the new government.
So what is going to happen to me now that I have been bitten by a goat?
Goat bites are terrible things. I left my gate opened one day after I went to pick up my wife from work and when I returned, goats bit up all the plants. My wife found it hilarious, but I didn’t. I spent umpteen hours taking care of those plants. They had powerful memories for me. All were given to me by Boyo Ramsaroop.
Boyo played a priceless role in my life. If it wasn’t for him, I would have lived a boring, useless life on Durban Street, Wortmanville. I probably would have died at a young age or ended up in prison. Boyo took me in hand and I never looked back.
Today because of those bad goats I only have one plant in my yard that connects me with Boyo Ramaroop. I must confess that although Boyo brought me up in politics, I never shared the emotional excesses he had for the PPP.
So will I be a jinxed human from now on? According to Clement Rohee when goat bite yuh, you could never be successful in life. Rohee can go to hell!

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