TIG part I

TIG= This is Guatemala

- The new Guatemala City airport, in its attempt to be modern, has installed sensors for automatic flushing toilets. However, they’ve also installed lids, which keep the sensor from knowing a person is there. Therefore, the toilets don’t get flushed. To me, this is a perfect example of the way things are or are not thought through in this culture.

- Literally, you know the widow maker (the electric thing-a-magigee with wires running to it in your shower) which replaces the normal shower head and heats the water is working when the lights dim.

- If you think that washing dishes is a never ending process at your house, you should see it here. First we wash the dishes in cold water (because that’s all there is), then we have to let it sit in a Tupperware type bowel full of special restaurant style sanitization solution (aka dish sauce) for several minutes, then they have to drip dry. Of course, not all the dishes fit into it this bowel, so you have to remember to come back and switch them around, or in some cases flip a pot around so that the other ½ gets into the dish sauce. More than once, we find that some of the dishes are in the sauce overnight and/or some never got put in.

-Ginny & Kevin’s neighbor’s dog is flea infested, looks pathetic, barks a lot, but seems to be quite intelligent in at least one area. He can distinguish between fireworks (not the kind that shoot pretty colors into the sky, but just make noise on the ground) and gunshots. At times, we defer to the dog when we can’t tell if it’s gun fire. So, sometimes it’s nice to hear him bark.