Mahahual Quips

I got google translate on my IPhone so when I run across someone who can’t understand my Spanish I whip it out. I just had to get a plunger , and the girl had no idea what I was asking for, so I whipped out my iPhone and typed in plunger showed it to her and problem solved
You know if I did not watch American tv news every now and then, I would not know the world is coming to and end, down here not much gloom and doom, just trying to live, people aren’t scared shitless by the media down here, does anything good happen in USA anymore?
Everything I own is damp, worst rainy season I have ever experienced in all my time here and in Belize, been through hurricanes but not continuous like it has been raining these last 2 months
Just went upstairs to the kitchen on the roof and there is a guy eating a big plate of fried chicken feet, he asked me if I wanted some, I said no thanks, he told me I did not know what I was missing, he told me he loved them
They just don’t get college football here in Mexico, I was next door talking at Aroma to the Italian guy who owns a pizza place here about getting a pizza delivered to my place in the barrio because I don’t want to leave during game. The German woman who runs Aroma asked me to explain this thing she heard of called football, I did my best to explain but they both just looked at me with blank stares, Europeans just don’t get us southerner s
At work at the port I feel sometimes like a white utility infielder on an all Mexican baseball team. Morning work for tours, afternoon work in real estate office, finish up by meeting people wanting to retire here. I play a lot of positions.

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