Trinis. What can we say about us that isn’t good? Experts at so many things and in so many fields; proud of our culture, colourful people and ready to fete. One of our greatest hidden talents would be our knack for finding excuses to lime. Here are 7 and a half reasons we concoct to put on a fresh drawers and bounce da’ starter.
1) Football
You’re not exactly a fan of football. You doh know who the players are or what offside actually means but a football lime almost always ends with a few empty cases of beers. Come Champions league or World Cup Finals, you know you chanting and celebrating with whoever team win.
2) Current gone
Friday night. You settling down to watch the new season of Orange Is The New Black on Netflix and Bam! Darkness. T&TEC playin up in dey mudda so and so. Either you lie down in yuh hot bed and try to get some sleep or you take them beers that was colding in the fridge and link yuh crew.
3) Somebody Birthday
This could be for a close friend, an acquaintance or even just a friend of a friend but a birthday pump is one of the best reasons to jump out. Without a doubt, bottles will be popping, shots will be sharing and hangovers will be coming for every party involved.
4) Traffic Lime
On your way from work or the fete? Bumpa to Bumpa? (We ain talkin’ bout wining) Stand still for the last 45 minutes?
Alcohol on board? Check. Music? Check. Why not pop the trunk, hop out and kill off a few beers with everyone in the car and the car behind you. You have an official traffic lime.
5) Hurricane Lime.
Being from an island just under the Hurricane belt that hasn’t experienced a full-fledged hurricane yet (jinx, knock on wood), when the weather man says there’s a slight chance of palm trees flying through your front window, your PDG Tiida getting flood out, or yuh local construction worker shouting out REEEEDDDD MAAANNNN! Yuh done know what that means…time to organise yuh team and head over to the friend with the strongest house (preferably one that Junior Sammy got the contract for) and is BIG LIME! Irresponsible or nah?
6) Wake
This is a serious one. Quammy was a good one, he done get corn. Emotions all over the place. Yuh ain’t see Quammy in about 15 years, but yuh hear the wake is tonight and it pumping. Why not head down and help celebrate all the good memories of the lost one with his loved ones. Alcohol and friends just may be the best remedy to help you come to terms.
7) Cause your significant other fly out
Allyuh lovey dovey all the time. Hugs. Kisses. One or two tears pelt at the airport. First thing you do to console yourself is WhatsApp your friends. Most of your single friends probably forgot you exist. But now it’s time to come out of that love-shackled hiding you’ve been in. In between the Face Time sessions every night, you’ve found a way to fill your new-found freedom. Just don’t rev out or you’d have a new reason to lime which leads us to point 7.5…
7.5) The Breakup
Tabanca in full swing. You just want to curl up in your bed and try to not think about your ex – unsuccessfully. To pull you out of your slump, you message your friends asking where’s the pump. All of a sudden you always ready to jump out. You do whatever it takes to not be alone. Now you’re out every night looking for that somebody right, or heyy that somebody wrong.
