Ka Boom

It's not the water heater. A week of complaining and quasi-threats to leave the country if they didn't fix my water heater, have blown up in my face.

As it turns out, we never actually had a full tank of gas to begin with. The little gas we managed to suck for our tea and lukewarm showers was the dirty inch of the barrel.
When we thought we had magically been given a full tank of gas because a mysterious bill for 1,573 pesos arrived at our door; we were so wrong. We didn't realize we might be getting an electricity bill, as well.

Of course, any story like this has a kicker...
We ran out of gas on Friday and understood we would not receive more until the end of the weekend because of the Independence Day celebrations. However, as timing is everything, some smart 'shady leftist guerilla group' decided to destroy 6 separate pipelines at 2am Monday morning. All of these lines had once before fed us sweet, sweet natural gas. The Veracruz government, from where the attacks took place, swore they had the necessary security measures taken during that fateful morning. When I heard this, I tried very hard to suppress my anger driven and very temporary racism.

At times when it gets to be a bit cold or I could really go for some more tea, I like to thank the 2 men whom I live with for cooking their beans for multiple hours at a time. I also like to think about the prolonged hot showers they like to take... And then I kick myself while I'm down by remembering how the damn Dane won't ever do his dishes.

No one knows when we'll have the pipes restored to obtain our lovely gas again. I'm guessing a week. Of course, when I mentioned this, the Dane laughed and said 'you're forgetting that you're in Mexico' which I promptly replied with an “oh, yeah... fuck”

Minus the negative and rather depressing experience this has been; I like to think that this somehow gets me one step closer to becoming a Zapatista. Even if they are not the actual group behind this; if by taking a cold shower I am somehow supporting a liberation front of some autonomous Mexican municipality, I am so down.