Things you find in Mexico

* the local homeless mute/deaf guy directing traffic around potholes

*the neighbors stealing my large plastic garbage bag and adding their garbage to mine

*the city garbage truck (very undependable) and the garbage collector with a cart and horse (or mule) racing to get to the garbage FIRST

*roasted corn venders selling in front of the church during the service AND people in the congregation going out to buy their corn AND coming back in to eat it as church goes on

*bottles of beer left on tombstones for the dead

*minibuses running red lights....and the traffic cop is right behind them, watching

*vehicles making left turns across two or three lanes of traffic, acting like the other lanes are "in the way"

*people going through other people's garbage and carting home stuff to then "pick and choose" what they want and/or need and putting the rest back in the garbage so someone else can go through it and cart some more of it home, etc etc etc

*people making steps with stones, bricks whatever so they can reach over your wall and help themselves to lemons and cactus,etc....it is "legal" as long as they are not actually in your yard!

*real siestas from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. during the hot summer weather

*Imagine living in two worlds, this and Texas, both unique and exciting!