Jackass sey de worl' no level. Jackass sey im know sey nuff people a sey it arready, but im still haffi lick out pan de pe-ople whe call demself 'suffara' and a mek calamity pan dem-self eena starm.

Bawl out for help

Jackass hates people who make things hard on themselves and then expect help to appear miraculously and even get angry when it is not given immediately and in abundance. So Jackass really hates the people who have literally built their houses on the sand and, when the storm hits as it always does (as it did last week before last with Gustav) bawl out for help that would be better given to people who encountered cir-cumstances really beyond their control.

And, to make it worse, is river sand them gone build them house on too. In the river bed. And what always happens when there is a storm? Duh!

Gully sides

Jackass knows that land is expensive and owning a home in a semi-decent location is a fleeting illusion that will never be attained for many Jamaicans. Fair enough. But he also knows that many of the people who build good block and steel houses in the places like the Hope River and on the various gully sides in Kingston have a 'country' with good good cultivation space where they came from or where their people came from.

And Jackass knows that hevry-bady - and he means hevrysmady - know when a storm is coming. Is not like one time when Jamaica used to run off one Jamaica Telephone Company land line with a big round dial and a one Robart black and white TV with four foot like bed. Everybady have TV, radio or cellphone and can track storm 'moving west at 20 knots, is expected to continue this forward motion for howevermuch hours'

So if you already call yourself suffera (and y'all know that people suffer in designer clothes these days) and you know that a storm is coming to a place you call home which is in a spot that is surer to get a bad beating than Jamaica at the Azteca in Mexico, MOVE NUH!!! CUM OUT!! LEFFF!!! HI MAN!!!

Laid-back approach

But the world is not level at all. The people who should be taking the biggest precautions are the ones who take the most laid-back approach. People who live in strong structures in areas which are not prone to flooding are out there buying up all sorts of supplies and battening down; many a 'suffera' would not even think about evacuating to a shelter until the storm is past.

Then lo and behold, as the water rises or the area is cut off and food runs out, who is there bawling out for help? Who is that cotched up on a roof, bawling 'we want chopper?' The resources that are expended on people who could have done so much more to help themselves would have been much better spent on people who tried their best but the matter was just beyond them.

If it was up to Jackass, the suffera who built their house in the river bed would have to sing 'merrily down the stream'.

Jackass sey de worl' no level. Jackass sey suffara no haffi suffa so much more time, cause nuff time a dem cause it pan demself.