If you have ever lived in Mexico you can appreciate the statement, ¨Only in Mexico´. Today amidst all the media superhype about the swine flu/H1N1 Kelley, Erin Brumit and I were treated to a random display of craziness. We were grabbing a bite to eat for lunch at a fast food chicken place and were done, just hanging out, catching up with each other´s lives, when along comes a teenage boy over towards the table and with great stealth he snatches up a slightly used chicken wing of mine, right off my plate.
I was a little shocked, Kelley almost laughed and Erin just sat there with an Erin grin on her face, halfway startled and about to burst out in laughter too. What did he just do? He grabbed a picked over piece of chicken off my plate and ate it right there. Did he ask? No, he just snagged it and gnawed on it. Normally people ask for food donations here, but this guy did not. What made it crazy was the fact that we are supposedly in the midst of this huge pandemic in Mexico and all the schools are closed for safety's sake. The people behind the counter all had on masks and gloves to protect them and here's this kid eating food from someone he doesn't know and without asking. Very odd, right?
Mexico is a place where you just might see about anything. If you think this story is crazy you should've seen the guy driving a truck one day down the city street holding a rope in his hand which was attached to a horse running along side him. And no, we don't live in the country, we live in a big city, over 1/2 million. Only in Mexico...
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