A Non-Violent Discovery

While i have been roaming about, something has come to my attention. Before i begin this perplexing tale, i will say that the Cayman Islands (the overgrown rock on which i currently reside) is a British colony. Now, of course they could throw some tea into the water and get rowdy in hopes of independence, but from what i can tell they are still very much Team William and Kate and so are perfectly happy remaining as such.

Anyway, for the most part going from US customs to a UK version is mostly a simple hop, skip, and a jump (quite literally-i can almost spit on some old people in Florida from here). However, there is one concept, a theory really, that the Brits go by that i am having a hard time wrapping my head around.

It all began one warm, Caribbean morning when i went to a shopping center, nothing out of the ordinary besides an unbalanced amount of root vegetables (Jamaicans like their starch, anyway...), but at all of these stores are security guards. Now, these upstanding security professionals look like they will take you down if you choose to rob the place except for one very foreign thing: they have no weapons.

Coming from gun slingin' America, i'm shocked and a little confused. How, pray tell, is one supposed to solve any sort of scuffle or kerfuffle without some sort of weaponry? After all, as young ones we learned that being armed is the first thing you need when solving a problem. Elmer Fudd never tried to talk it out with Buggs or Daffy, it was some sort of duck/wabbit season, he just shot. Wile E. Coyote doesn't even speak because of his rather large and mysteriously acquired arsenal of problem-solving tools.

This discovery leads me to believe that one really has to be a "people person" to work in such a high-stress, dangerous, law-enforcing job here or in the UK. I have to say i am still trying to wrap my mind around this concept... but you'll be happy to know i am doing my part to understand this strange new culture in which i find myself. I am going to watch a documentary on Gandhi and view a season or 3 of Law and Order: UK. Fear not, i will learn these new customs and grow. Learn something new every day.