Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Patrick the blind man.

I must blog about this before I forget... and lose the memory forever.

There is man who walks around Grand Anse, Patrick - if you've spent any time here you know him.
He is blind and is always asking for money.  Well he is mostly blind, I think he can see a bit.
He isn't the most polite or gracious man to say the least.  He's yelled at me and been very rude to me plenty of times.. but I still like to give him food whenever I have it.

Yesterday Amber, Alfonso, and I were hanging out on Grand Anse Beach and I saw Patrick coming.
I had an extra peanut butter and jelly sandwich left from lunch and I said oh I'll give him my sandwich!
So I went off to get it and said "Hi!  I have a sandwich  for you" he said "put it on my bag." so I did.

About 10 minutes later we're off playing in the water and I hear Patrick yelling "HEY! HEY! Where is my sandwich!  What did you do with my sandwich!  Don't you know I'm blind!!!"

It was the funniest thing I have ever heard.  Maybe you had to be there or maybe you have to know Patrick... but it was so funny. 
I went up to him on the beach and said it's right here in your bag sir and he said "I AM BLIND" as if I didn't already know this.  And I said yes I know, you told me to put it in your bag.  and he kept repeating "Don't you know I am blind girl?!" so I unzipped his bag and handed him the sandwich and he kept mumbling about me.... no thank you or anything.
Patrick may not be getting many more peanut butter sandwiches.


2 comments:

cairncottage said...

Haha! He must have a very short memory, too! Or maybe he was hoping you would give him another sandwich, if he was persistent! Either way, that was very thoughtful of you! Hope you have a fun-filled Thanksgiving Day!(Your last one in Grenada!)What are you planning to eat? Do they have turkey available there!
God Bless!, Ann

Amber said...

"It was a trick! There was no sandwich!" lol omg all of that morning was hilarious!

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