Mañana (Thursday - February 11, 2010)

Mexico has many endearing qualities that open our hearts wide to the people and places and stimulate our senses: interesting and inspiring colorful art work, colloquial food smells and sounds, the gentle slow passing of time... and then there is the beloved "mañana" philosophy. The mañana philosophy is polar, meaning that your feelings for it are really, extremely, intensely enamored of it or really extremely intensely resentful of it.

I must admit that the mañana philosophy has been less of a irritant than not. However, as Jim, the kids and I step over parts and pieces of our engine that sit in various corners in metal and rubber heaps, the mañana philosophy loses its charm. Victor did not show up Tuesday and his employee Ramon waited for hours. Finally, at 5:00pm, Ramon tells us that he is going home and doesn’t know where Victor is or when he will be back. Wednesday, there is no sign of either mechanic.

And so we wait... today is Thursday. We just get news on the morning net that the electricity will be going off for a couple hours today. Joy. It’s almost 9:00am... maybe Victor will show today... or maybe... mañana.