Over the past two weeks we have moved out of my in-laws and into our own apartment, and have since been making it into our home. In the beginning we had some issues with the kitchen sink, where i learned "Mañana"... Often times when we would wake up in our apartment we'd find the kitchen floor with random water everywhere. It wasn't untill some investigagting that led us to find that the kichen sink was leaking whenever we used it. We told our landlord, Martin's uncle, about the issue and he assured us that in "mañana" he would have somebody come by and take a look at it as well as fix some tiles that were loose on the counter. The next day came and went with no sign of him. When we saw him the day after, Martin brought it up again. "Oh mañana." He replied.. And in mañana.. nothing. I have to admit i was getting a little frustrated, it was to the point he would'nt even say hi so to avoid us mentioning the sink. Finally i decided to take a look at why it was leaking, don't ask me why i didn't do this sooner, and found that the plastic tube (thats usually metal in the US) didnt fit into the hole it went into in the wall. It kept being pushed enough to let water slowly drip out. So we positioned it to where the tube got "stuck" so it would'nt leak. And it worked. So about a week and a half after us telly Martin's uncle, he shows up out of nowhere with another man to fix the tiles. We let him know that we did a temporary fix on the sink, and because it was "fixed" for the most part, he didnt even look at it. Which as long as it works for now i'm fine with that..
If that wasn't enough, we bought a living room set. At a good price and new. So i was very excited about it. And it would be here in 3-5 days. But then those five days came and went. We found the number to give the company a call and found out that they didnt check to see if the had it on the truck that diliveres them to the store, so the soonest we'd get everything is 8 days instead on 5... So for now its another waiting game.
At least i'm exercising my patience...
Welcome to Mexico! If you normally aren't a patient person, they will teach you how to be. I learned this myself, I have always expected things to be done by the time the person says but, here have learned that, when they say 24 hours, they actually 72, 7 days means 3 weeks! So good luck, a way I don't get so frustrated with this what I call unprofessionalism is just to laugh it off and when they give me a time, I triple it.
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