More People We’re Going to Miss . . . April 22, 2008
Posted by Emily in : Friends, Saba , trackbackWe snapped a few more pictures of people we’re gonna miss. This guy is Coochie. We know him as the “water guy.” He has come to our rescue more than once to fill up our cistern with water.
This guy holds his age well because I would like to point out that he is in fact a grandpa, to FOUR grandkids.
While he waits for the water hose to fill up our cistern, he kills time by either smoking (as seen here) or doing pull-ups on his truck. He is the “Jackie Chan” of Saba.
This is Frans. He is the mechanic who kept our car running. THANK GOODNESS FOR HIM. Although we have paid him trillions of dollars in mechanic fees, IT WAS TOTALLY WORTH EVEY PENNY. Plus we really like the guy. In fact, he is originally from Holland, then lived in New Zealand, and has such a cute accent. You wouldn’t know if he was telling you off because his accent sounds so NICE.
L-R David, Raymond Hassell, John McCarty, Carl Hassell, Hannah, Joan McCarty, and me (the pregnant one) 
We’re going to miss these guys. These are the McCarty’s who live just below us. They are from Connecticut and spend every winter on Saba. They have had a house here for about 30 years. They are so sweet, and Hannah LOVES them. Their house has all kinds of fun things for little fingers to get into, and she LOVES to follow John McCarty around. He is always in and out of the house providing drinks for everyone, and Hannah is all about the action. If you are going somewhere, she will follow you.
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My Saba experience is now complete. I have seen Coochie. It seems that everyone I know here on Saba is absolutely shocked to hear that I don’t know this guy, but I’m happy to not have needed his services.
You’re so right about Frans. I don’t always know what he’s saying but he says it so nicely that my reaction is to always smile and nod. He might be telling me off, as you said, or telling me that my transmission won’t last much longer and I’d still say “oh, that’s great, thank you.”