She's totally cool about my admiration for plus size Caribbean ladies - to the point of calling me (from the gate) when she sees one coming along as she minds her stall. I'm 5'6" and 140 pounds while Marlene is 5'10" and 350 pounds. Her four (adult) daughters (no sons) are more or less the same size as their mother and so she is not all alone while waiting on me.
I just wish she could get into the UK as easy as I can get into Jamaica.
I love Kingston but haven't travelled so much outside it. If anybody knows Washington Boulevard where Duhaney Park Mall is, I was once stood at the junction almost opposite the mall for over an hour holding a live fowl - a gift for Marlene from her daddy. Two of us made the journey and the other guy asked me to wait a few minutes but it turned into something like 75 minutes.
Passing drivers were making comments about white man holding a white fowl. As I reached home, Marlene just wrung the chicken's neck like an expert, and I asked myself why her daddy couldn't have killed it before handing it to me. My journey would have been a lot easier.