SEE MACARONI YAH!
But a wah do ‘Macaroni’? If you ask him, he will tell you nothing. This Portland bus driver even claims to be unbothered by the viral videos which pokes fun at him and makes him out to be a nincompoop. He said, however, that the videos, which have taken social media by storm, have affected his kids negatively.
Macaroni, whose given name is Patrick Harris, said he has seen most of the videos making fun of people in silly situations and his main concern is that persons have used the videos to tease his children.
“I neva know say this thing woulda reach this way. It is a problem and it good. People have it inna negative way with me name, even mi children, people see dem and say, ‘Gweh, yu fada fool fool’, and mek mi kids dem feel a way ‘bout ‘Yu father a run bus a riva’,” Macaroni said.
The 40-year-old father of seven gained notoriority last November when a video surfaced online which shocked viewers. In the video, onlookers could be heard saying, “Weh Macaroni a guh?...A can’t Macaroni dat,” in disbelief at the poor judgement of a driver who tried to navigate a Coaster bus across a flooded roadway.
Since then, the audio has been added to numerous videos depicting persons carrying out mindless actions.
But for the man who is known as Macaroni, the wave that his name has created online has come as a surprise to him. And despite the negative connotation that his name has taken on, Macarono says he does not let that bother him.
“Mi nuh put dat pon my brain ’cause mi know say a neva me did a drive di bus,” he said. But he wants persons to know that he is not ‘silly’, as Internet users have made him out to be.
“People have it inna di road say anything people do stupid dem a say dem a Macaroni. Macaroni is not a mad man, Macaroni no do stupid things. Macaroni is a man weh sensible more than nuff a di people dem weh a put up video,” he said.
He told The STAR that he took on the moniker