Yesterday I Thought It Was the End of World, Thankfully I Was Mistaken!
Yesterday I thought for a horrible second that the end of the world was happening before my very eyes. I could hear a mighty rumbling noise suddenly appearing from nowhere, it was getting louder and louder by the second, which meant one thing that it was obviously getting closer to my house. I stood up and looked out my bedroom window and all I could see was a huge thick trail of horrible smoke and hear an almost deafening noise.
I thought for a split second something horrible was going wrong, I thought maybe the yanks had sent a snatch squad to get me for a derogatory article I had written about President George Bush a few months ago, it was maybe derogatory but it was all very true. I would occasionally look up at the satellite burning bright in the night sky and wave up at the CIA saying come and get me, I thought maybe freedom of speech was thing of the past in the eyes of the Americans.
As I looked out my window I was wondering where all this thick smoke and noise was coming from, it was too late to make a run for it. I would have to take my fate like a man, whatever it was. I was in a kind a daze for a few seconds, trying to figure things out.
Then all of a sudden my wife came into the room and put me out of my misery, it was Government workers spraying, what I can only assume are chemicals of some sort to kill bugs such as mosquitoes. I have never seen anything like this in all of my life. I went outside for a wee look and could make out the truck through all the smoke.
If I had been walking down a street and I had seen that cloud of thick smoke and all the noise that was coming with it, heading towards me, I would have turned around and ran like I was an Olympian sprinting champion. It was almost as scary a site, as when I look at my bank account, which isn’t a pretty site for me!
It must have taken about 10 minutes until the smoke and noise of the truck eventually faded into the background and my little corner of Barbados that I call home returned to its normal levels of tranquillity. Which is only broken when the roosters crow or some bad boy drives down the road too fast with gangsta rap blasting out their car window.
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the call it “fogging”. i had major problems with those fumes as a child. forget killing mosquitoes that thing almost kill me
oh my!! i always thought that that thingie “fogging” is only being done here in our country!
anyways, here in our place it’s being done once a years, and yeah i totally agree with you,
it kinda looks/sounds like the end of the world whenever they do that
The fogging truck went past a neighbouring road again yesterday, and the smoke blew over to where we live and both me and my dog that were sitting outside starting caughing like crazy.
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