The Senor’s quest for sausage in patties rather than links has brought him to becoming a Sam’s club member. This would not be my choice of a place to shop. I love the Mercado, I like buying six or even 7 eggs or any number I want and getting them in a plastic sack. I like telling my cheese man I want a meter of cheese as he rolls it out. I enjoy picking up items in the little miscellaneas and conducting my transactions in Spanish. Of course we do a lot of our shopping at the Commercial, we can find every thing we need there, but I won’t get fruits or veggies there and the eggs at the Mercado are bigger and I think fresher.
We just needed a couple of items, fruit juice and a storage box to leave some items here with our landlord. The Senor decided it would be cheaper to buy our Sam’s club membership here and more convenient as our home Sam’s Club is over 30 miles away. We wandered through the whole store, it is amazing the array of items they have there, but guess what? No sausage patties! I told the Senor next year we will simply freeze some Jimmy Dean sausage at home and see if we make it through with it. Worth a try and cheaper than a Sam’s Club membership! We didn’t even find the right size storage box there and the juice you had to buy 4 ,so we left empty-handed and walked over to the Commercial.
We found our storage box and a dozen other items we didn’t know we needed until we saw them. At home we shop in military commissaries and are used to tipping the baggers and carry out people, but it still blows my mind to have an eager 6 yr old grab your shopping cart, saying taxi,taxi and rushing out with your cart to load your groceries in the cab.We had a won a dinner at an Ixtapa restaurant and decided we would do an early movie, then dinner. We saw the latest Bruce Willis “Die Hard” movies which is full of impossible chase scenes and impossible situations. Caught a cab back to Zihuatanejo and stopped at the little balcony bar next to the stairway to our apartment. Kind of a dark hole in the wall type place, with a very friendly accommodating bar tender and with a view of the Galeana side of the street. We noticed some friends sitting on the bench below us and shortly went to join them.
While visiting with them my scruffy little street dog that I’ve become fond of showed up. I told him to wait and visit with my friends while I ran upstairs and got the meat scraps I’ve been saving for him. He dined well that night, with some chicken, ribs and steak. We walked into Zorro’s for a night-cap and Scruffy followed, but just to lay down and sleep off his great meal. He has developed a bit of a limp, the thought crossed my mind to take him to the vet, but I wouldn’t be around to give him antibiotics, or even know if I could find him every day so I decided to let nature take its course. I’m sure plenty of other people have noticed this sweet funny looking dog with a very gentle, happy disposition and save their dinner scraps for him. Signing off KO
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