Friday, 02/05/2010

So someone hit my car last night. It was parked on the side of the road, no other car behind it, and some guy came and bumped into the passenger side rear bumper. It's a little dent in and deformed, but overall very little damage. The other guy, who took off afterwards, definitely had more damage. I hope he broke his hand for just taking off. But anyhow, as soon as I saw there was no serious damage, I decided there is no point in being mad about it. To the contrary, there was a positive and a hilarious aspect:
Neighbors who observed it were waiting outside until the hotel guy got me, and were telling me all the info they could - it was a green Toyota Yaris, and his driver side front end was pretty badly damaged. They even wanted to go through the neighborhood w/ me to look for it. I thought that was great.
Hilarious - so I decided we should call the police - who, despite two calls, never showed. That's what the hotel guy told me from the start. So this is a pretty serious law enforcement agency. The hotel guy even told me that they once were robbed, and he ran down to el centro to get the cops. The cops told him they'd just turn around and come right with him - but never showed from 'turning around'.

I tried to link picasa photoalbums to the blog, but it won't let me. Surprisingly google did a crapy job at this - not userfriendly at all. So here the links:

San Miguel de Allende, MX:
http://picasaweb.google.com/joegrass76/02aSanMiguelMexico#
Mexico City:
http://picasaweb.google.com/joegrass76/02bMexicoCity#
Way to Guatemala:
http://picasaweb.google.com/joegrass76/03aHeadingToGuatemala#
Xela (Queztaltenango, Guatemala):
http://picasaweb.google.com/joegrass76/03bXela#

Planning to leave here tomorrow afternoon, and take it easy until then. Adios ...