The Town Crier: Please Carry My Parcel
Aunty Kona, Flomo’s bossman’s sister, is returning to the US and asked to take a parcel for her friend.
Kona: | Flomo you here? Bring the woman things inside let me pack them. I need to finish packing and get ready to go to the airport. |
Flomo: | I coming. What you want pack again? The things they gave me already pack. I put it in the bossman car. |
Kona: | Flomo, bring the things inside. I need to put it in my overnight bag. |
Flomo: | Ah, the big suitcase they gave me, that the one you will put in your overnight? That one will not work oh. |
Kona: | What suitcase, and where it came from? She said her people got small parcel for her with boney and pipefish. That all I agreed to carry. So why you brought whole suitcase? They give you money to pay for it? |
Flomo: | No oh. Don’t get vex with me. You told me to go for your friend things, and bring it for you to carry. Nobody told me about parcel or suitcase. I had to pay my own money to even bring the suitcase here, so you owe me for that one. |
Kona: | It late now to call her for money to pay for this suitcase. I need to hurry up. I already have four suitcases, I can’t carry another one. |
Flomo: | You real carrying the whole Liberia oh. |
Kona: | Don’t even start with me. I begging you. |
Flomo: | Ok, but you got to pack my own a parcel oh. |
Kona: | You serious? You get parcel too? |
Flomo: | Aunty Kona, I beg you. That only two dresses for my sister. And this other dress for you, so you can remember me. |
Kona: | Awww, thank you so much. I love my dress. Thank you, thank you Flomo. Come let me hug you. |
Flomo: | Ahn ahn, your American people get coronavirus. You ain’t coming give it to me. |
Kona: | Your bossman was right. You very nice and very annoying. Come here man. |
Flomo: | Ok, let me hug you because you my oldma. But that your friend bring this problem here. |
Flomo: | So what you doing with the suitcase? And that what thing inside? |
Kona: | I know? Ehn that you brought it? I might just close my eye and carry it. |
Flomo: | You brave oh. You carrying whole suitcase and you ain’t know what inside? I thought they say you not suppose to do that one? |
Kona: | I beg you, please stop scaring me. I trust my friend. |
Flomo: | You sure? Then they not send parcel, but they send whole suitcase and it making you vex? |
Kona: | Ok, let’s open it and I will just take a few things for her. Then you can take the suitcase back. [they start opening the suitcase] |
Flomo: | No oh. The way this thing heavy. I already suffer to bring it. Let them come for it. |
Kona: | I see dry fish and boney, and some clothes. I can carry the fish and two suits. |
Flomo: | The thing them plenty oh. It look like that Joe Bar Market in this suitcase. Kissmeat, mwen mwen, safo, nyenekpan soap, koto, and temple of heaven too. |
Kona: | Look here, donut grease, japee, bitter kola, palm oil AND palmbutter. I sayyyyy. |
Flomo: | This other one heavy oh. Ah, that the kanyan and bennyseed. Ohhhhhh, they get country bread too. My heart burning man. I wish the suitcase was for me oh. |
Kona: | Give me the dry crawfish. Maybe I can carry that one too, it not heavy. |
Flomo: | They still get plenty thing in here oh. Look at all this CDs. It say Praise and Worship from the Global International Fellowship Church. |
Kona: | Seriously? They sending CDs? Who still listening to CDs? |
Fomo: | Maybe it for your friend to sell them. What kind a big stick that so? That wood? |
Kona: | You talking about the one? You ain’t see the fire coal? Ok, that’s it. The few things I put aside, I will carry them. Put everything back in the suitcase. After I leave, call them to come for it. Then they can find someone else to carry it to her. I got enough Waterside Market in the other suitcases. |
March 16, 2021 @
Your plz give me some of the kissmeat and mwen mwen. Hahaha so funny, you guys keep my day good ❤️