For two years now I have been looking for a certain water
jug, I know what it is supposed to look like but just haven`t seen one. Not
that I have spent lots and lots of time looking, my attention span is fairly
short when it comes to shopping but I`ve just kept my eye open for one. When I
have a vision of something I just can't seem to let it go or compromise.....I'm
such a geek that way.
Last week I was in the Golden Zone for a foreign immigration
forum...just to make sure I wasn`t getting deported, just kidding. I stepped
into a artsy little shop and there it was, my water jug. Exactly the right
size, the right color, and the right price, and .... there was only one, just
for me. I was so excited. Could hardly wait to get home but I had a few more
stops here and there, back to central, visited some friends, walked to another
friends, wandered around central and picked up a few things had lunch upstairs
in the market and then walked back to the docks....all this, while cuddling my precious
clay water jug. Got off the boat and walked home along the beach barefoot,
which always feels so good after walking on concrete in the city in flipflops
all day. Finally got home and went to put my precious package on the step so I
could dig out my house keys and I stumbled....just a wee little stubble on the
step, not even really a stumble but my package just tapped the concrete step, it
was just a wee tap, but I knew something bad had happened. I wanted to kick my
ass...hard. I even called myself stupid in Spanish.(I can do that now) It was
with great dread that I unwrapped my
package, I don`t think I even breathed, yup it was cracked all the way around, the cup
that it came with was even cracked. I was so sad and so mad at myself. I
schelped this thing all around all day and made it home and then broke it
moments before getting it in the house. Stupid is the word. I put crazy glue in
the cracks the next morning but it didn`t work. Remember, there was only one in
the store. So the hunt begins again. It is still pretty, but it doesn`t hold
water, I need it to hold water so that I can stop storing my water in empty
plastic yogurt containers. If any of my
Mexican readers see one of these somewhere please let me know. I paid 85 pesos
for it and was happy with the price.
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| The perfect water jug is now a big paper weight |
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