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Only in Guyana
Dem Boys Seh…
(Kaieteur News) – Dem boys seh Guyanese resilience is a scientific mystery that even NASA done give up studying. Other countries got blackouts and people start forming protest. In Guyana? We gat people mekking ‘ joke and gat de whole nation in stitches.
Just this past weekend, de power company announce on Facebook that there is a blackout in a particular area and they working hard to fix it. Serious business. Technical fault, engineers on the ground, all of that.
You would think that everyone affected would be urging the power company to get the lights on quick. After all, this is World Cup football season and people want see the matches.
However, we had one man who had a different opinion. Calm like Sunday morning, he slide into the comments and beg the company: please don’t rush to turn on de lights.
Dem boys seh they had to read it twice. Not because of bad grammar—but because of high-level emotional strategy.
The man explain that his ex-girlfriend having birthday party in that same area. And he politely requesting that the electricity company take their sweet, sweet time. He suggested closer to midnight was a right time.
Only in Guyana you could have a national utility company unknowingly become a supporting actor in a relationship drama. Imagine power engineers fighting to restore electricity, while one citizen actively lobbying for “extended blackout service.
It seemed like de man was making a joke, Guyanese style. And what better way to relieve a tense situation by making light of it.
Dem boys seh this is Guyanese resilience at its finest. In some places, blackout means chaos. In Guyana, blackout means opportunity for jokes and light-hearted fun.
And that is the beauty of Guyanese. We could be sweating, fanning, complaining about heat, and still find time to turn suffering into stand-up comedy. A transformer could explode and somebody will say, “Well at least now I know which neighbour has generator so I can go there to charge my phone.”
Because truth be told, Guyanese don’t just survive hardship—we remix it. We take frustration, add sarcasm, sprinkle humour, and serve it back with pepper sauce.
That is why dem boys seh if the lights ever come back on too quickly, don’t be surprised if somebody complain that the power company didn’t give them enough time to de candle light dinner.
Talk half. Leff half.
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