A typical day in the life of an American expatriate living in Mexico is trying to find drinking water. You may be surprised by this, but all Everyone knows you can not "drink the water in Mexico." It refers to the fact that you can not drink tap water in Mexico. Probably every American adult you know he can not drink tap water. But the typical American adults know how to get drinking water in Mexico?

In a word: bottles!

The daily routine in Mexico to obtain the liquid of life, which is absolutely essential for survival, is that you must have bottled water. To meet this need, two companies where I live, Guanajuato, have come into existence. To say that they are competing with each other for customers, competition, Americans are defined as competition, will be a misnomer. That is, I think so.

The way this works is that drinking water employees walk through the streets of Guanajuato, crying all day, "Water … water … water." They mark the end of their musical-like screaming with your company name so that, the client will know whether to run naked in the shower, soaking wet, in the nearest window to scream again, "Water!"

Therefore, this image if you like:

You are in the shower. You just his body covered with a thick, foamy soap. You are so white that looks like a polar bear walking on their hind legs. Besides, you look like a polar bear walking on its hind legs who is also blind. This is because just lathered my hair with shampoo and can not be seen by fear that the sharp pain, burning that surely will occur if you open your eyes even for God.

You are down to their last three ounces of bottled water in the shower, when you hear the scream from the alley applicant,

"Water … water … water Purified" (Purficada is the name one of the two companies.)

You will pulling out of the shower seemed very alarming. To do this, because he knows if not to reach the nearest window and start it sounds as a mating call between two beasts torridly in love, then lost in getting water.

The result of any doubt about it is partly the result more not likely to get the water period!

Now I'm going to extrapolate on this subject with their permission.

Bottled water types are never two days in a row. The Apocalypse may be in the frenzy of the mid-apocalyptic and these guys ever, for love or money, there are two days in a row to give more water during the Mother of all wars. What I am saying is that it could come on a Monday, and if not loaded up on bottles of water and then you could be waiting to dehydration as the shape of his imminent death.

Not only that, they can not even return to their neighborhood for weeks. For reasons known only to employees of two companies water, simply do not participate in any regular or predictable way. Nobody in this country, "Coast to Coast" (from the Gulf of Mexico Ocean Pacific) knows why!

Here are some suggestions as to why no-come increasingly to the house once more than two in a row.

They:

1. Forget completely and figure you have moved or died.

2. They have some kind of passive-aggressive way, how dare not cry to me when I went to all these problems to sing the song of love to water them from the dead … I'll show you! Grrrr! "

3. No mental or keep records on paper when someone last ordered water.

4. Making the assumption that you are getting the water otherwise.

Do not know.

But the point is, unless you have a car, and have the strength of Hercules, you can not blow up the store and get some water. These bottles are enormously heavy.

So the next option is: use the phone.

In writing these words, I have called five times and sent two emails the company, "Water Purficada. Three and a half days later, still not been submitted.

With each phone call, I found someone that sounds nice, and like you really care about the urgency I feel, because my life is falling away from the lack of water. They promise that they will send someone who will be at my door in an hour. I'm sitting here in mid-afternoon nearly four days later without water.

If you are going to live in this country, you have to get used to this happening all the time, in all aspects of life here. There is nothing I can do about it. The bottled water company will take water when and if you think you need some water. That's all I can say that makes any sense.

The horrible thing is that if you were Mexican, this would not happen to you. I realize what I am implying here, but the sad truth. And mind, I can speak the language. It's not a question of language barrier. I communicate clearly, in Spanish, they need water, where I live, and not you hurry I'm dying here!

I immediately called my Mexican friends in the city. They told me to get water in a few minutes to make a phone call. Conde IT-ONE! I made five calls and emails sent and I have nothing to show. A Mexican friend even asked me to repeat what I told people the water. She said they should have, but unfortunately did not.

Mexican Doug survival tip of life to achieve their water is as follows:

Even if you are fully stocked with water, and hear the kind of water coming, buy another bottle or two. Always have three full bottles in reserve! Always!

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