Every Sunday, Speedeet and Wilar from Pike Street, Kitty bring you a slice of life from two 12-year-old best friends. No politics — just vibes, laughs, and Guyanese culture! 🇎ðŸ‡ū

🎭 De Problem

Speedeet: Wilar. WILAR. Mash coming.

Wilar: Me know. Me hear de music truck testing last night. Me grandmother nearly call de police.

Speedeet: Bai, me mudda seh if me want to be in de Mash parade, me got to make me own costume. She seh she nah spending money on “foolishness.”

Wilar: Same ting me fadda seh! He seh, “When I was yuh age, we use to make costume from newspaper and still look good.”

Speedeet: Newspaper?! Bai, me nah walking down de road wearing de Kaieteur News!

Wilar: (laughing) Imagine — yuh walking in de parade and people reading yuh costume. “Hold on, lemme see what on he back… oh, de obituary section!”

Speedeet: Me done. Me nah doing newspaper.

ðŸŠķ De Plan

Wilar: Okay, okay. Me got a plan. We does see dem big Mash costumes with de feathers and de sparkle, right?

Speedeet: Yeah, but dem costume cost like fifty thousand dollars. We got fifty CENTS between us.

Wilar: Dat is why we improvise. Listen — Miss Sharma next door got a whole clothesline full of bright colour clothes. She got feathers from she pillow that burst last week. And me grandmother got glitter from Christmas that she hiding in a tin.

Speedeet: (suspicious) Yuh want we to TIEF Miss Sharma feathers?

Wilar: NOT tief! BORROW. We guh ask she nice nice.

Speedeet: Miss Sharma don’t lend NOTHING nice nice. Last time me ask she fuh a mango from she tree, she chase me with a broom.

Wilar: Dat is because yuh didn’t ASK — yuh was already in de tree when she come outside!

Speedeet: Details, details.

ðŸŽĻ De Construction

Wilar: Aight, so here de full plan. We take old t-shirts, cut dem up, sew on feathers from de burst pillow —

Speedeet: Who sewing? YOU cyaan sew. ME cyaan sew.

Wilar: We use GLUE.

Speedeet: Glue?

Wilar: Glue gun. Me cousin Ravi got one. He use it fuh everything. He glue he shoe back together last month.

Speedeet: And de shoe hold?

Wilar: (pause) …it hold fuh two days.

Speedeet: TWO DAYS?! Wilar, de parade is like six HOURS. Me nah want me costume falling apart on Vlissengen Road in front of everybody!

Wilar: It guh hold! We guh use EXTRA glue.

Speedeet: Famous last words.

🌟 De Rehearsal

Wilar: Okay, put on de headpiece.

Speedeet: (puts it on) How me look?

Wilar: (long pause)

Speedeet: Wilar. How. Me. Look.

Wilar: Yuh look like… a chicken dat got in a fight with a Christmas tree.

Speedeet: DAT IS NOT WHAT ME WAS GOING FOR!

Wilar: Hold on, hold on — lemme adjust de feathers. (pulls one)

Speedeet: OW! Dat was me HAIR!

Wilar: Sorry! De glue stick to everything!

Speedeet: Me head burning! De glue HOT!

Wilar: Stop moving! Yuh making it worse!

Speedeet: (running around) GET IT OFF! GET IT OFF!

🏆 De Decision

Wilar: (after the chaos) Okay so… maybe we skip de costume ting.

Speedeet: YA THINK?!

Wilar: We could just go watch de parade instead. Stand on de side. Eat doubles. Drink juice.

Speedeet: NOW yuh talking sense. Dat was de plan from de start.

Wilar: But we would have looked AMAZING.

Speedeet: We would have looked like de before picture in a “what not to wear” poster.

Wilar: (grinning) At least we tried.

Speedeet: (touching he head) Me head STILL sticky from de glue.

Wilar: Coconut oil. Me grandmother swear by it.

Speedeet: Yuh grandmother got solution fuh everything EXCEPT how to keep she grandson out of trouble.

Wilar: True. Me she biggest project.

Next week: Speedeet and Wilar discover that Budget 2026 means new things for their school, but they’re more concerned about whether the new cafeteria will finally have good food.

Speedeet & Wilar are two 12-year-old best friends from Pike Street, Kitty, Georgetown. Speedeet is Black, Wilar is East Indian. Dem commentary is just fuh laughs — no politics, just life through young Guyanese eyes! 🇎ðŸ‡ū