Who is the driver of the year?

Culture shock greeted me today – I wasn’t prepared. I stood in a line of 3, before a cashier and waited my turn. I heard another cashier, who was a paper plane-flight to the right, hollering that she was available. Time was my friend, so like a soldier on inspection, I maintained my position.

When I was allowed to, I purchased a bag of ice and a donut, for the little lady I told you about in the previous blog. The cashier handed me my change and promptly disappeared. I stood and waited but she was nowhere in sight. I saw the little lady moving towards the glass case which held the donuts. In moment-appropriate mode, I adopted a teacher’s stance – “No, you have to wait”, I said. Remember the saying – ‘you are never too old to learn’. Using the same tone and mode I had previously adopted, she responded – “No, you just take it – you paid for it!” I remained silent and watched as she pulled the glass door and got closer to the treats. She took a napkin from a tray, removed her donut, placed it in a bag and then said – “The ice is outside”.

We went outside. A Happy Ice-type refrigerator was on the pavement, about fifty feet from the entrance of the store.  She raised the refrigerator’s unlocked aluminium door (no locks!) and I removed a bag of ice. Culture adjusted – lesson learnt!

Driver of the Year

The catastrophic financial earthquake which buried a significant portion of the ‘dough’ which was available in abundance in the pre 2008 era is still with us, so our motorsports activities were not as numerous as we would have hoped. Despite that embarrassing reality, we are a determined, resourceful, resilient people and we will not be restrained!

We had a motorsports calendar which featured several disciplines, with events at various locations across our island paradise – circuit racing, drag racing, rallysport, dexterity/drifting etc. We are choosing one individual. Which individual would you say had the most significant impact in the motorsports arena in 2013. One individual – one driver! Who is the driver of the year?

Cecil Munroe Gleaner On-Line Writer