The Psychic Bread Seller
on Guyana Dan (Guyana), 13/Oct/2009 16:24, 34 days ago
Late afternoon, walking past the spooky shell of theOld New Amsterdam Hospitalon my way to the taxi rank yesterday I decided to check out the wares on offer at one of the bread stalls by the road.  While I was gawping at the array of different shapes of breads, buns and cakes on offer and trying to work out what I needed, the sales lady interrupted my confusion - "Wholemeal?"Whu - Eh - Hmm - How"Yes Please"She knew what I wanted even before I did.  And I'd never once stopped there before.Of course, the prosaic explanation is that she had noticed that all white people love wholemeal bread (a quick survey of New Amsterdam volunteers suggested this is true here) or that she thought I was someone else.But I prefer to believe she can just read my subconscious desires.  I can't wait to find out what I want next time I go there.Just up the road from there is another stall selling bread, a table with the following painted loudly on the front:THIS STALL IS COVERED WITH THEBLOODOFJESUS,FILLED WITH THE ANOINTING AND THEHOLY SPIRITIt looks like an environmental health warning. I'm sticking with the psychic one.