1. If a week goes by without a power outage, you check to make sure your flashlights are somewhere you can find them easily because you know one is bound to happen soon.
2. You think of dry season as rainbow season.
3. When someone asks how you are doing, you say, "Fine! Gracias a Dios."
4. You've developed a sixth sense when listening to bochinche, and can immediately mentally rate it on your "bullshit meter".
5. You have large containers of water inside to refill the toilets and huge tanques de agua outside in case your water mysteriously disappears (again.)
6. If it is dry season, no matter how wet you are getting from the weather, it is bajareque, not rain.
7. You think of Nelvie's, Sabrosons and Milqueburger as "fast food restaurants".
8. You don't think twice about why people have stopped their cars in the middle of the street for no apparent reason. You just go around them.
9. If a North American yells at or is in other ways rude to a Panamanian, you think, "damn gringos."
10. You don't wonder why Panamanians are the happiest people in the world. You live here so you know.
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