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May Day! May Day! It is pay day
(Kaieteur News) – Dem boys seh you ain’t need no calendar, no phone alert, not even a good memory to know when pay day reach in Guyana. Just tek a lil drive past any bank and watch the long, winding snake of humanity curling ‘round the ATM like it waiting pun salvation. That is your signal right there that pay day done land.
Dem boys seh even if you forget the month got 30 or 31 days, them lines go remind you sharp-sharp. It does stretch so long, you would think is tickets for CPL, not people trying to rescue dem own money from the bank. And everybody face got that same serious look. Half hope, half calculation, and a lil bit of quiet panic.
But dem boys seh them lines telling a deeper story. It ain’t just “people get paid.” Is more like “people get paid and immediately get unpaid.” Because as soon as the salary touch the account, it already got ten hands waiting—light bill, water bill, rent, groceries, hire purchase payment. Money ain’t resting; it just passing through like a visitor who miss the last minibus.
Dem boys seh if people did really flush with cash, the ATM wouldn’t look like After Thanksgiving sale every month end. The mad rush showing that plenty households operating on low reserves—so low, even the reserves got reserves. One man whisper, “My account does cry when I check the balance.”
And then there’s the big one: cash still king. You want pay for this, buy that, tip somebody, settle something—cash, cash, and more cash. Swipe card? Sometimes. Transfer? Maybe. But cash? Always. So everybody got to line up like it’s a national ritual.
Dem boys seh if the system was more electronic, them lines might shrink. But until then, pay day will continue to look like a parade—only difference is nobody smiling, and everybody marching straight to the ATM.
Because in Guyana, dem boys seh, money don’t just make the world go round; it make people form a line first.
Talk half. Leff half.
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So, now the ATM is part, parcel of the GUY-LINE syndrome in the 1960’s ?