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Re: The Ugly Ass. American
Posted by Jeffrey (Guest) - Wednesday, January 6 2016, 6:14:41 (UTC)
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I like that title. The ugly ASSyrian American [in Mexico]....

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pancho wrote:
>When I was a kid in Chicago I helped an old lady home with her groceries and refused the quarter she offered me. If I accepted money then I was a hired had, my noble act became a “job”....so I refused.
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>A couple of weeks ago I woke up to a drained car battery. Not knowing anyone or anything in town I walked to find someone....barely fifty feet down the road a pick-up came my way...it was old and rusted but had a battery that worked...driving was a young man with his wife and baby. I motioned for him to stop and asked if he had cables and a second to give me hand. I got in the back and we drove to where my truck was....we did the deed. The car started nicely and I offered the man 100 pesos.
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>He refused, nicely, but firmly...I insisted...he again politely refused...I again insisted...”something for the baby”, I said....his reply haunts me yet and will and a good thing too. He said, ever so sweetly but with a mild reproach, “but, we're neighbors”. Being very polite people, he took the money, just to get away from me I suppose...away from this gringo who lives in their town without ever bothering to know his neighbors. What if one day he needed my help, as his “neighbor”? Would he first have to count his spare change? Wasn't I saying, “you have to buy me too, if you ever need me for anything.”
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>My face burns with shame when I think of it, which is every time I drive out of my gate because he lives on the corner...I'm hoping to see him again one day and apologize...though some things sound worse when you apologize...thing is, there are things you should never do which you CAN'T apologize for...and that's as it should be. Even if I see him on the road, needing help, I've effectively made common decency and fellowship a matter of money...how will he know that if he accepts my help I might not expect to be paid...after all, I've already shown myself to be just such a jerk.
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>I can't give him more money by way of apology...in fact I can't buy way out. And if I offer help, he will wonder...almost be forced to refuse it.
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>A neat hole I've put myself in....the only way is abject humiliation...in my broken Spanish I have to face him and apologize....tell him I knew better and should not have returned his kindness with an insult.
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>You just can't live among people as a stranger...not in a half-deserted Mexican mining town up in the mountains.



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