When I was a child...

This is serious factual stuff. As I pretend to remember them or make them up, of course.

I think that I've turned into a really intelligent adult. Which is amazing to me. Because as I look back, I was a pretty stupid child.

I remember thinking as a child that playing with a chicken was against the law. So much so that my grandmother had chickens in her back yard in Laventille and I would stay far from them, until it was time to eat them of course. Why? I was always hearing news reports of people dying and police suspecting fowl play. Hmph! You feel I goin' an' dead fuh playing with any chicken?

Then in the same train of thought, I was always waiting on the police to come and arrest my grandmother's chickens. I would warn the chickens to shut up! Why? My father told me using fowl language was against the law. Those blasted law breaking chickens.

Quite frequently, as a little boy, I was asked what kinda car I want to drive when I get older. I proudly said, I want a 16. A 16? I never understood why people watched me funny after saying that. 4 x 4 is 16, DUH!

I think I listened to too much news as child. News scared me. I remember waiting for those violent hearts, I was ready for them, unlike them fellas in de news, I wasn't prepared to die from no heart attack. Consequently two of my grandparents died from that. But now I know better...

There is one particular thing that I remember vaguely, it's so fresh in my mind as if it were yesterday, it's my mixing up of when to use "vividly" and "vaguely" when writing essays...