Hisa bo man si ta gana bo tin
I've been without cable for the last 4 or 5 months. Since I moved I cancelled my old cable contract and basically I have been living off internet, XBox and the occasional movie. Why you ask? Well, the one cable company sucks and the other cable company isn't digital and they are always having problems. So I decided, out of principal, that I am going to go with satellite. Only it turns out that it is not as easy as that.
Anyways, SXM cable has finally decided to go digital. So I hightail it over there beginning of january only to be told that they are not accepting any new installation requests until they actually convert in february. Please come back in February they tell me. A lot of deep breaths later and some nasty looks I walk out and back in a month later. Highly efficient as island life is, I have to stand in the same line as all the people who are there to exchange their old cable box to the shiny new and much improved digital box. An hour and a half later it is my turn. Jay! Glee, House, American Idol, Halftime show, here I come! Mam, we cannot schedule you in until April as that is when your area converts. Bleep, bleep, your bleep, what the bleep. I'm home again without tv.
Depressed I tell a friend of mine, we'll call him spiderman because he wants to be all over me, that I am for the foreseeable future without cable. Life is not fair; all I want is to watch tv; I want mindless entertainment for chuck's sake. Hallelujah! He offers me the use of an extra cable box he has hiding in his closet. I can watch cable for free. Well, for the next two months anyway until they disable all the cable lines. No problem! I have a Grammy show to watch.
All of this of course comes with a payment. All of those who still need to be driven somewhere by your parents, please stop reading and go sleep. The rest of you, all I did was give him a hug ... and a chaste kiss then I skipped home only to plug it in and realize that the only channels I can see is BET and the local channel. So I tell him and he sees bring it back so he can check if it is the box or my wires.
I bring it back and it is my wires. So we are sitting in the car talking and the long silences start. Now I know it is time to go home before the questions start. He's looking at me and I am staring out the window. No way was I turning my head because I can feel he is leaning in way too close. He looks around my car and sees some cd's lying around. The one on top is from OREO so he asks me who they are. I am surprised he doesn't know as they have had concerts here before. I turn on the radio so he can hear them. They are from Aruba and sing in papiamento so he asks what it is they are singing. oh lucky him. The stars are smiling down on him because of all the songs that cd could have been stuck on it was the one where they sing: Hisa bo man si ta gana bo tin ... oh oh ... kayente bo ta. English translation: Raise your hands if you are wanting ... oh oh ... a bit horny aren't you?
So I say: "He says raise your hands if you want something". I turn my head and Spiderman has all his eight legs up in the air.
Anyways, SXM cable has finally decided to go digital. So I hightail it over there beginning of january only to be told that they are not accepting any new installation requests until they actually convert in february. Please come back in February they tell me. A lot of deep breaths later and some nasty looks I walk out and back in a month later. Highly efficient as island life is, I have to stand in the same line as all the people who are there to exchange their old cable box to the shiny new and much improved digital box. An hour and a half later it is my turn. Jay! Glee, House, American Idol, Halftime show, here I come! Mam, we cannot schedule you in until April as that is when your area converts. Bleep, bleep, your bleep, what the bleep. I'm home again without tv.
Depressed I tell a friend of mine, we'll call him spiderman because he wants to be all over me, that I am for the foreseeable future without cable. Life is not fair; all I want is to watch tv; I want mindless entertainment for chuck's sake. Hallelujah! He offers me the use of an extra cable box he has hiding in his closet. I can watch cable for free. Well, for the next two months anyway until they disable all the cable lines. No problem! I have a Grammy show to watch.
All of this of course comes with a payment. All of those who still need to be driven somewhere by your parents, please stop reading and go sleep. The rest of you, all I did was give him a hug ... and a chaste kiss then I skipped home only to plug it in and realize that the only channels I can see is BET and the local channel. So I tell him and he sees bring it back so he can check if it is the box or my wires.
I bring it back and it is my wires. So we are sitting in the car talking and the long silences start. Now I know it is time to go home before the questions start. He's looking at me and I am staring out the window. No way was I turning my head because I can feel he is leaning in way too close. He looks around my car and sees some cd's lying around. The one on top is from OREO so he asks me who they are. I am surprised he doesn't know as they have had concerts here before. I turn on the radio so he can hear them. They are from Aruba and sing in papiamento so he asks what it is they are singing. oh lucky him. The stars are smiling down on him because of all the songs that cd could have been stuck on it was the one where they sing: Hisa bo man si ta gana bo tin ... oh oh ... kayente bo ta. English translation: Raise your hands if you are wanting ... oh oh ... a bit horny aren't you?
So I say: "He says raise your hands if you want something". I turn my head and Spiderman has all his eight legs up in the air.
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