“¡Hola Mi Hermano… Merri Krismas!!... ¡Hapi Niu Yeear!!
It
was the all too familiar voice that came over the limping phone wire… Well,
limping transmission… phone wires are becoming a thing of the past!! My friend
Cheíto had come up for air again…
-“Juats
Hapenin?”… “Jau’s ur Hialeah Miami
-“Man,
I’n sorry… Cachita and me, we went to visit cosin Pepe in Naples
“Well,
I suppose you gave your cousins a present or something, just to say thanks for
being invited… right Cheíto?” I had to ask because Cheíto is really a good guy,
but he can easily forget his P’s and Q’ when he gets excited… and he seemed to
be.
-“What
else did you do while at your cousin?” “Did
you take Princesita to one of the parks?”
-“Park?...
juat park?” … he asked…
-“Well,
like Disney… you know, the mickey mouse park?” I answered…
-“Oh
yea… my cosin, he say sumtin about goin to visit a mouse but, ju knoe… we hav nuff of
them thins runnin' round our block rite hear in Hialeah
-“Cheíto…
this is not a real mouse, man…” “This is make believe, you know, a mouse that
talks to the kids… and they have a talking duck also”
-“A
tolkin mouse an’ duk?” “Man, an thees people look at me laik I’n crazy when I
tolk to Confucio”(Confucious)
-“Who,
or what, is Confucio?” I asked, somehow being a little afraid of whatever
answer I might get…
-“Dat’s
my perro sato (mongrel) I pik up fron the strit, man”… “Intelligen’ and cost
nuthin’”… “I tolk to hin an he jus hears me an he moves his teil al’over man”… “I
reeli love hin … he sleeps by my side of the bed… evry nite”.
-“I
didn’t know you had a dog… I guess he is a good friend, but it is very
different from what they have at the park, Cheíto”
-“Mebbe
it be differen…” then he added… “But, ju knoe… if we go to one of this parks…
well… everithin is espensive, no?”
-“Yes,
everything costs money, and you can easily spend more than what you should,
especially when you go with a child”, I had to admit.
-“Well,
ju knoe… if I take Princesita to this mouse place, and she wan’s sumthin… I kan’t
say no Rafa… I hav to get for my Princesita juat she want”… “Man, there ain’t
nuf money in this worl’”
Having
been to the talking mouse park myself with a child, I had to agree. “Yes, I
know Cheíto… but the children are so happy at this place”
-“Mebbe
they ar’” “but” he added “If I spen all my mony ther, jow can I buy juat she
needs after? “Ju knoe… dresses, dancing class, piano class –she gonna be a good piano
player, ju knoe… and all the little stuff she ask for al’o the tine?”
“Well,
Cheíto, many families just save money during the year and then they go for a
week to the park”
-WHAT,
ju crazy man?” “Save mony for a hole jear an spen’ it ol on a talking mouse?” “We
can go to New Yor’ an visit tía Consuelo… she feed us an’ everythin”… “An’ I
gues we can visit the strit mouse that lives in a hole down the corner fron her
jaus’”… “It don’ tolk… but it sur is beeg!”
Then,
after a couple of seconds, he added:
“No
man, I cant for shur spen’ all that mony to visit a mouse…” “I haf tu many thins’
to pay for and to many mor’ to buy for us, with to little mony already”
After
this little bit of basic roots reasoning, we said our good byes and each went
his own way, to continue on with his daily routines. Perhaps because he was not
brought up in the mystique of the big MM, or Disney… perhaps because he simply
looks at the immediate life he leads and the responsibilities he has to his
little Princess and to Cachita; the truth of the matter is that Cheíto has his
feet firmly planted on the ground when it comes to spending money on those
things he considers superfluous… and a big, talking mouse is –apparently- one
of them.
I
don’t know… He might have the right of it... we do spend our monies at the drop of a hat
and not always in the most productive places. Then we complain when whatever is
left, is never enough.
Think
about it… next time you are shelling out your hard earned money for something
that is not really needed… Better yet, think about it before you do take your wallet out…
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