Jul 8, 2013

35 Signs you've been in Mexico City too long

1) you'd rather take a bus than the subway.
2) you'd rather walk than take the subway.
3) you wear more jackets in summer than in spring.
4) you look both ways before crossing one way streets.
5) you regularly pay less than $3 for lunch, fifty cents for bus fare, and you think its totally normal.
6) you know the difference between an agua a jugo and a liquado
7) you've eaten horse, pig, sheep, and cow. In tacos. In the space of ten minutes and for less than $5.
8) food from a street vendors cart no longer scares you.
9) you had the DVD before the movie came out in theaters.
10) you automatically go in for a kiss when meeting strangers.
11) prickly pear cacti make you hungry.
12) you can't remember what window screens were for.
13) when someone asks you what your favorite kind of beer is, you don't understand the question.
14) you've heard more songs by Men at Work in the past month than your entire rest of your life combined.
15) you buy gum on the subway and you get your hair cut in the street markets.
16) someone says "sunday" and you think "barbacoa"
17) you don't remember what color the sky is supposed to be.
18) you've ever used the phrase, "make mine with corn smut please"
19) you're more afraid of being killed by a car than by a cartel.
20) you're totally comfortable eating elbow to elbow with total strangers.
21) you eat tacos for breakfast
22) you can travel to distant cities more cheaply than to the airport
23) you have more than a few twitter feeds in Spanish
24) you subscribe to a volcano monitoring twitter feed
25) you call avocados "aguacates" in normal conversation
26) you put aguacate and lime juice on everything
27) you put sugar and cayanne pepper on ice cream and around the rim of your beer glass
28) you understand the meanings of several different types of whistles
29) you can name at least three prehispanic gods
30) you know a few dozen words of Aztec language
31) the last question irritated you because there were many tribes in the Valle de Mexico who were speaking Nahuatl long before the Aztecs showed up
32) you can pronounce Xoloitzcuintles and Popocatepetl correctly
33) Your monthly salary is less then what you used to spend on utility bills in the US, but you still have a maid and an apartment with doormen.
34) you wax poetic about tacos
35) you're shocked and flustered when people show up on time.

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