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EnsenadaDr
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Conversations with my Mexican Vecina, part 1
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]
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DENNIS
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Gee. Makes one want to test the batteries in the digital recorder. It would be a crying shame to miss any of that.
"YOU CAN'T LITTER ALUMINUM"
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BajaBlanca
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Hahahaha! Keep 'em coming.....
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Gypsy Jan
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Great Story
Keep them coming!
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness.”
—Mark Twain
\"La vida es dura, el corazon es puro, y cantamos hasta la madrugada.” (Life is hard, the heart is pure and we sing until dawn.)
—Kirsty MacColl, Mambo de la Luna
\"Alea iacta est.\"
—Julius Caesar
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DavidE
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Mood: 'At home we demand facts and get them. In Mexico one subsists on rumor and never demands anything.' Charles Flandrau,
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"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...
A Lot To See And A Lot To Do
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EnsenadaDr
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we can certainly see the priorities in Baja society, remote, tv, and cerveza first, women a distant second. | Quote: | 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... |
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alacran
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The MAN should be the owner of the control (ha ha ha, I wish)
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EnsenadaDr
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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]
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CortezBlue
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Is she a Dr or did she stay at a Holiday Inn Express yesterday?
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gnukid
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| 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?
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EnsenadaDr
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I know you don't like me Cortez. But I am what I am. I am a Doctor, sorry you don't believe it.
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EnsenadaDr
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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? | Quote: | Originally posted by gnukid
| 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? |
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BajaDQ
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Thanks for the Spanglish lesson Doc! Added a new word to my vocabulary - Vecina/vecino!
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EnsenadaDr
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Actually BajaDQ, I never use that word. But this lady is always saying "Vecina Vecina" haha.
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mtgoat666
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| 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.
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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?
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CortezBlue
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nope, not true
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EnsenadaDr
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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]
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luv2fish
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| 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."
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aguachico
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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.
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Kgryfon
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"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]
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