BajaNomad - Conversations with my Mexican Vecina, part 1

Conversations with my Mexican Vecina, part 1

EnsenadaDr - 1-28-2014 at 09:04 AM

Vecina (lady neighbor) to me: Vecina, vecina, do you have any extra aluminio so I can wrap my daughter's lunch?
Me to Vecina's kids ages 7 and 11, left alone all day while her mother goes to work after they come home from school:
"Stop beating up your sister. or I won't give you anymore papitas"
Mama Vecina to me, "Vecina Vecina did you have a problem with my son, he was crying because you told him you weren't going to give him anymore papitas. The little girl is a llorona, and my son is very sensitive."
Old lady vecina is locked out of her house. I tried to get in but to no avail to help. Mama Vecina lives next door. I offer $50 pesos to the guy across the street to go downtown and get Old Lady Vecina's son's keys to open her apartment.
Mama Vecina runs out of the house and says "I can open the door". Selective hearing after 20 minutes of me trying to get in the old lady's house.
Crickets.

[Edited on 1-28-2014 by EnsenadaDr]

DENNIS - 1-28-2014 at 10:17 AM

Gee. Makes one want to test the batteries in the digital recorder. It would be a crying shame to miss any of that.

BajaBlanca - 1-28-2014 at 10:29 AM

Hahahaha! Keep 'em coming.....

Great Story

Gypsy Jan - 1-28-2014 at 11:27 AM

Keep them coming!

DavidE - 1-28-2014 at 01:21 PM

"Woman! Where is the remoto for the TV? You know I cannot change canales for futbol without the remoto. Andele! Where is it?"

"It is not here"

"Que? Que? Que? Where is it?"

"In the carro es de Juanita"

"Hijo de la gran......what is MY remoto doing in the car of Juanita?"

"It needs pilas. It did not work to see mi novela"

"Where are the P-nche pilas? Where is my remoto woman?"

"La tienda did not have the pilas. I forgot the remoto on the front seat. She is not home, I called"

"Ay me chinga! am going to Aqui Me Quedo (a cantina) to watch the game!"

"Cerveza will cost your entire week's salary"

"That is your problem, not mine!"

Overheard in Empalme, Sonora...

EnsenadaDr - 1-28-2014 at 06:46 PM

we can certainly see the priorities in Baja society, remote, tv, and cerveza first, women a distant second.

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Originally posted by DavidE
"Woman! Where is the remoto for the TV? You know I cannot change canales for futbol without the remoto. Andele! Where is it?"

"It is not here"

"Que? Que? Que? Where is it?"

"In the carro es de Juanita"

"Hijo de la gran......what is MY remoto doing in the car of Juanita?"

"It needs pilas. It did not work to see mi novela"

"Where are the P-nche pilas? Where is my remoto woman?"

"La tienda did not have the pilas. I forgot the remoto on the front seat. She is not home, I called"

"Ay me chinga! am going to Aqui Me Quedo (a cantina) to watch the game!"

"Cerveza will cost your entire week's salary"

"That is your problem, not mine!"

Overheard in Empalme, Sonora...

alacran - 1-29-2014 at 07:43 PM

The MAN should be the owner of the control (ha ha ha, I wish)

EnsenadaDr - 1-29-2014 at 07:55 PM

Update today!!

Mama Vecina: Do you go to the otro lado every day?
(Who does she think I am, Superwoman?)
Me: No why?
Mama Vecina: Do you think you could bring me a big bag of potatoes next time you are there? They are so much cheaper there.
Me: Of course no problem..
(What's next? $1.00 burgers from McDonald's?)

[Edited on 1-30-2014 by EnsenadaDr]

CortezBlue - 1-29-2014 at 08:13 PM

Is she a Dr or did she stay at a Holiday Inn Express yesterday?

gnukid - 1-29-2014 at 08:17 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by EnsenadaDr
Update today!!

Mama Vecina: Do you go to the otro lado every day?
(Who does she think I am, Superwoman?)
Me: No why?
Mama Vecina: Do you think you could bring me a big bag of potatoes next time you are there? They are so much cheaper there.
Me: Of course no problem..
(What's next? $1.00 burgers from McDonald's?)
[Edited on 1-30-2014 by EnsenadaDr]

And seriously why are potatoes so expensive in Mexico?

EnsenadaDr - 1-29-2014 at 08:17 PM

I know you don't like me Cortez. But I am what I am. I am a Doctor, sorry you don't believe it.

EnsenadaDr - 1-29-2014 at 08:32 PM

I've been asked by several Mexican women to bring me a 5 or 10 lb. bag, I guess in Mexico you buy them separately. in fact wasn't there a thread here recently that included spuds in the topic?

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Originally posted by gnukid

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And seriously why are potatoes so expensive in Mexico?

BajaDQ - 1-29-2014 at 08:52 PM

Thanks for the Spanglish lesson Doc! Added a new word to my vocabulary - Vecina/vecino!

EnsenadaDr - 1-29-2014 at 10:17 PM

Actually BajaDQ, I never use that word. But this lady is always saying "Vecina Vecina" haha.

mtgoat666 - 1-29-2014 at 10:36 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by EnsenadaDr
Vecina (lady neighbor) to me: Vecina, vecina, do you have any extra aluminio so I can wrap my daughter's lunch?

Crickets.

i did not know crickets are popular in baja. thought they only eat crickets in oaxaca and mainland. how do you cook them? can you put them in tacos? new diet food?

CortezBlue - 1-29-2014 at 11:13 PM

nope, not true

EnsenadaDr - 1-29-2014 at 11:14 PM

Goat you know you are missing a new Baja Nomad catch word introduced by Gypsy Jan and her hubby. Crickets is the "in" word that acknowledges that you understand something. Sort of like "AOK". Or also known as "Nomadspeak".

[Edited on 1-30-2014 by EnsenadaDr]

luv2fish - 1-29-2014 at 11:46 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by alacran
The MAN should be the owner of the control (ha ha ha, I wish)

I was listening to these older woman talk when one asks the other " do you know how to drive a man crazy in bed ? " the other lady responds " no, how tell me tell me " first lady " very simple, hide the control." :lol:

aguachico - 1-30-2014 at 06:38 AM

Milk, pepper jack and papas are the number requested item from Costco to take to Tijuana.

The papas in TJ are expensive and dry.

Hey Doc funny stories.

Kgryfon - 1-30-2014 at 05:53 PM

"Crickets" means no reply (usually because what was just said was truly absurd, really stupid, insulting, or otherwise not worthy of a response). As in dead silence so all you can hear are the crickets chirping in the background.

(edited because I have fat fingers..)

[Edited on 1-31-2014 by Kgryfon]

EnsenadaDr - 1-30-2014 at 05:57 PM

OK thanks for the clarification. Where did that word originate? I was hoping it was an original from Gypsy so we could claim it here as being the origin for the "Gringo" directory.

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Originally posted by Kgryfon
"Crickets" means no reply (usually because what was just said was truly absurd, really stupid, insulting, or otherwise not worthy of a response). As in dead silence so all you can hear are the crickets chirping in the background.

(edited because I have fat fingers..)

[Edited on 1-31-2014 by Kgryfon]

EnsenadaDr - 1-30-2014 at 06:00 PM

Hey check this out. Pretty funny definition of "crickets" on the Internetslang.com site.

http://www.internetslang.com/CRICKETS-meaning-definition.asp

back to opsonization and interleukin-1. Oh will the studying never end?

Kgryfon - 1-30-2014 at 06:24 PM

Yeah, I think they missed the boat on that one... :lol:

EnsenadaDr - 1-31-2014 at 02:49 AM

I sort of thought it was a similar definition, no?

MitchMan - 1-31-2014 at 08:20 AM

Crickets...not new. Most commonly used by entertainers, usually comedians, who, when performing, say a joke that the audience doesn't find funny, hence no laughter - just silence.

It's embarrassing to the performer, and when the performer describes that scenario, he says something like "when I said that joke, the room/audience was so silent that the only thing you could hear were crickets chirping outside".

That descriptor has been used since the early days of Johnny Carson. Ensenada Dr., are you familiar with Johnny Carson? Did you see much of his show? How about Robert Klein? Alan King? Don Rickles?

DENNIS - 1-31-2014 at 08:25 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by MitchMan
Ensenada Dr., are you familiar with Johnny Carson? Did you see much of his show?

Start here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m_dT0wsrGI

MitchMan - 1-31-2014 at 08:33 AM

It's no secret that Mexicans love TV, same for other cultures as well. My wife is always blown away by the presence of TVs in banks and various government offices.

Also, my wife is "impressed" when she sees my neighbor, an abanil, who doesn't have a cistern system nor plumbing with even a tinaco on top of the house (I don't know how he flushes his toilets or if he even has a way to take a shower). I see his wife scoop out water from their ground level tinaco all the time. When I first moved their, she used to do all her cooking outside...where the water was. They still have no washing machine or dryer and his wife does all their laundry by hand. Has his home stuccoed but not painted, just bought an older 4wd Ford bronco fully restored (beautifully, I might add), has a beat up panga...and...has a 56 inch flat screen TV!

Priorities!

MitchMan - 1-31-2014 at 08:36 AM

Very cool, Dennis.

EnsenadaDr - 1-31-2014 at 09:07 AM

Haha yes I remember those guys...I was pretty young when they were around but never heard them say crickets or if I did I didn't understand what they were referring to especially Don Rickels, he was the one who would talk a mile a minute and was manic, though hilariously funny.

Quote:

Originally posted by MitchMan
Crickets...not new. Most commonly used by entertainers, usually comedians, who, when performing, say a joke that the audience doesn't find funny, hence no laughter - just silence.

It's embarrassing to the performer, and when the performer describes that scenario, he says something like "when I said that joke, the room/audience was so silent that the only thing you could hear were crickets chirping outside".

That descriptor has been used since the early days of Johnny Carson. Ensenada Dr., are you familiar with Johnny Carson? Did you see much of his show? How about Robert Klein? Alan King? Don Rickles?

EnsenadaDr - 1-31-2014 at 09:14 AM

He didn't say "crickets" though. was the referral to the movie, Bob and Ted and Carol and Alice because they were all movie actors and Democrats? The plot of the movie was practically non-existent unless you are into wife swapping and cheating, but I guess that's what it was all about in the late 60's "free love".

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Originally posted by DENNIS

Quote:

Originally posted by MitchMan
Ensenada Dr., are you familiar with Johnny Carson? Did you see much of his show?

Start here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m_dT0wsrGI

MitchMan - 1-31-2014 at 09:44 AM

Don Rickles, very funny guy, treated everybody the same...he insulted everyone equally and often right to the core. Sort of like a portrayal of Archie Bunker on steroids.

EnsenadaDr - 1-31-2014 at 09:37 PM

This is classic, filmed in 2012. Going to be 88 years old this May. Don Rickles getting the Johnny Carson comedy award.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiHHsq5AAyA

Quote:

Originally posted by MitchMan
Don Rickles, very funny guy, treated everybody the same...he insulted everyone equally and often right to the core. Sort of like a portrayal of Archie Bunker on steroids.

EnsenadaDr - 1-31-2014 at 09:47 PM

Couldn't resist this one, a much younger Don Rickles with Frank Sinatra on the Johnny Carson show, hilarious!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5_V9RT8aR8

dasubergeek - 1-31-2014 at 10:19 PM

I don't get the price of potatoes either, and it's just Baja and possibly Sonora... in Jalisco they're everywhere and even the fancy papas cambray are just a few pesos a kilo... every afternoon people set up puestos all over GDL and fry papitas to order. (They also have puestos that boil vegetables to oil, something I've yet to see in Tijuana.)

Next time you see her, EnsenadaDr, tell her, "Vecina, vecina, this time you cut off the punta of the papa and you put it in water, then you plant it. Soon you'll have enough papas to feed the whole city."

EnsenadaDr - 1-31-2014 at 10:40 PM

Mama Vecina thinks she sings like Jenny Rivera. Every afternoon I have been there about 3 pm for 30 minutes straight she starts in singing at the top of her lungs, I believe she is hoping to be discovered. I go in the other room and turn on the fan so I don't have to listen. I don't like the sound of hounds singing their swan songs.

Old Lady Vecina: Senora, you can't use my washing machine anymore. It broke down last week.
Me: That's ok as soon as the plumber fixes the drain in mine, I will have my own.
Old Lady Vecina's son (the landlord): There is a lavanderia up the hill you can use (he has one right on the property but doesn't offer me use of it, even though the electricity and water is included in my rent)
Old Lady Vecina: Senora, would you pick me up some pan at the tienda? You know the ones with canela on them. Here is the money. (Old Lady Vecina always pays for herself).
One hour later.
Me: Here are your cinnamon rolls..
Old Lady Vecina: Gracias.,,,shhhh....as soon as my son leaves you can use my washer. You know how men are!!