White Wine anyone? It’s free…

So I’m sipping some of the more expensive white wine available in Guyana. Of course there are some fools who would feel classy doing it. I know better.

It’s the cheapest bottle available from some fancy dude’s winery. But it’s foreign stuff which our more expensive Guyanese stores bought cheap and are selling to us classy people at a very classy price indeed.

Not that I’m really calling myself classy. I’m no fool. I value my dollars because I don’t make enough of them! Being in the non-profit business can be very frustrating sometimes. In fact let’s forget a bit about the white wine. Get to know me a bit.

Raine Alexander. Yes, that gay name (I’m not discriminating dude! If I turn out to be gay then I’ve got the perfect name) is just something I’ve got to live with. Well Alexander is sort of powerful but Raine is where the trouble is…fine, fine, fine! My name isn’t gay. It’s just romantic. Ugh.

Now if you’ve checked my profile out, I should tell you that the bit about me being in the non-profit business can be misleading. You see I don’t do charity or any of those saintly I’ll-go-to-heaven-if-I-do-it crap.

I’m so ashamed of my salary that I don’t have a personal bank account. I just have some joint ones and of course I didn’t put any of the money in those! I’m too poor.

You see, by the time I discount my travelling expenses and lunch money from my salary there isn’t much of it left. I slave all day on what I now consider my personal plantation – my home away from home – and I have nothing to show for it. So you see I really am like a non-profit organisation. I help to record history and bring the people information and I get a stipend.

So how do I afford to drink the very expensive cheap white wine we get here (which according to my very educated relative really tastes like rotten potatoes)? Simple dude, I don’t pay for the shit!

It’s all free. Apparently, it makes people feel very classy to give out cheap white wine for which they’ve paid quite a few dollars. Well…he who has his bread buttered by fools shall not complain about the fools! I’m all for helping people feel classy these days…it keeps the wine coming!