I dropped my neighbor's kid off at school today. So I guess that means it's time for a summer wrap-up. My summer was overstimulating. So here is what I've learned since June.
1. Socialism sucks. Yeah, from the weird Chinese/Cuban/NPR/Cable access programming on Cuban TV, the ten phone calls it takes to find a decent meal in Havana, to the constant "I'm sorry we have to meet in a more discreet place because I don't want to have to explain why I'm talking to Americans." excuses. Don't even get me started about the red-tape.
2. I thought it was a "good" break-up, wrong. Found out that an ex that I thought was a friend, was spreading a rumor that I had "ballooned" up to 350lbs. Several people in the Safety Harbor area were surprised at my "miraculous weight loss." Asshole.
3. Cheap peelers work best. Yes, when peeling mangoes, cheaper is better. I peeled over 150 mangoes for the handing of over of the secret family mango chutney recipe. "You want chutney? Start peeling".
4. High School reunions are best when you maintain a constant, blood alcohol level of 0.06–0.09.
5. Your in-laws won't notice you if you have their grandson with you. With kids around, you become about as interesting as a spinster aunt at the family reunion.
6. People think you're an asshole if you show up in a red BMW convertible. I just have to learn to accept that. To quote my brother: "you're the only beemer owner I know who's not an asshole."
7. Take toilet paper on any visit to Cuba. It's like a little piece of America wiping away the contraband meat of communism. I took a big bag of baby-wipes....sigh, a little square of capitalist heaven.
8. Cuban airplanes have escape ropes. (WTF?)
9. Don't trust airlines that only take cash and have no tail markings.
10. America is pretty great place and I have new respect for "invisible hand" of capitalism.
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