The Boyz call me at 8 am. On a three way call and they say "CP, We've been thinking.
You know how last year, you loved off Horsey ( Ronaldhinio) at the world cup, and you were his biggest fan, watching all the Brazil games, and such, making horse noises everytime he came on the field, talking up all sorts of scenerios of how you would exploit his fame and fortune once ya got married and such............. and you know what happened."

And I say, “Yeah they sucked and Lost.” (And began to mutter about what a waste it was to buy that overpriced $50 Brazil shirt all cuz i was caught up in the moment)

And they say “And remember that time we were at the Indian place during lunch and India was playing, you were like woweee India rules, and then they lost. Yes?”

And I say, “Well they were losing to begin with.....”

And they say, "And remember when you started cheering for Trinidad at the World Cup, yuh wore the shirt Dracs got yuh, n u tied up tryn to be all sexy n ting? We went to Island Mix and u get all boisterous and cheering? And then they lost???"

And I say, "You said they had and I quote "Nochance in hell" I mean heck, even they were surprised they made it!"

And they say, “And you know how yuh luv off Anthony Parker of the Raptors and scream Israel everytime he comes on??”

And I say, “Yeah but he's cool, cuz he shoots like 18 points in a game”

And they say, “Well he only does that rarely, and yesterday he gave out 10 turnovers”

And I say (pretending to know what a turnover is) “Well maybe he was tired, or Sam told him to.”

And they say, “Well we were thinking today, what is the common element amongst all these people and their losing ways, and it occurred to us, IT'S YOU”

And the other one says, “Yuh curse. Yuh ever been baptized....yuh a Jumbie, Yes!” (Why do Trini people use Yes like as an exclamation mark??)

And I say (incredulously) “Let me get this straight, You think I am jinxing sports teams with my support for their players?”

And ‘all serious’ they say “YEAH, yuh the common link, the common Element, the Problem”

And I say, “But I thought we all agreed it was Sam??”

And they say, “We thought so too, until we did our analysis. IT is definitely YOU, thus we need you to stop cheering....or rather we're going to pick someone for you to cheer from and conduct an analysis to see if its true.”

Bad enough I am having hardships in the dating arena, this fools now think I am a bona fide jinx.....

THE NERVE