Ya know, kids, you haven’t lived until you drop off you car at the local one-man Mexican mechanic shop at the edge of town because you just need some basic service done like oil, fluids, filters and such and the one man doesn’t speak English but he does speak Spanish muy rapido so you find yourself standing at the front of your car with the hood up and the one man is talking and pointing at stuff that you have no idea what it does and your nodding your head in agreement with a look of understanding on your face and you’re thinking how is it humanly possible to speak that fast and now he is speaking even faster and at some point he stops speaking yet you’re still nodding and now you’re both looking at each other in silence and it’s very awkward so you blurt out “Esta bien” shake his hand a walk away thinking he’s either going to rebuild the engine or just replace the gas cap and it’s going to cost somewhere between $1.15 and $5000 US but it doesn’t matter because you’re pretty sure you are never going to see your car again so you decide to just walk around Mexico for a while.
It’ll be fine.
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