A friend of mine and I were at a crazy music session in a bar a few nights ago. The band, thrown together for one night only, included the best but insufferably load guitar player around, a wonderful single-guitar country singer, a jazz drummer and the best musician in town on bass.
We thought it would be a train wreck and couldn't resist taking a look. Not bad! A little weird but damn good music. Only one fight started over the guitar players volume with the drummer being bigger and scarier so he won and the offending volume was turned down...a smidge.
On break, our buddy the country singer told us about his trip to David earlier in the day. And only in Panama would this stuff happen.
The highway is being widened to 4 lanes so many trees are being removed.
The international contractor is excellent and so far had not made any big mistakes. This was to change.
The traffic got stopped to wait for them to fell a tree. Our buddy noticed that the line of traffic was too close to the tree. If the tree fell the wrong way, it could get a few cars.
Three men were in the top of the tree working when the tree started to fall...prematurely! The tree fell across the traffic taking out a car with people in it. The 3 men working up in the tree came down with the tree and were scattered across the road.
The car was totaled with no one injured. And the 3 men were relatively OK.
Whew! That was close with no one hurt.
Next, a friend of ours was helping with the Live Auction for a huge fund raiser last week. She was on stage, going through her funny antics, as was usual for her. She is very talented and capable of handling stage work with hilarity.
Only this time she was a little over the edge of drunkenness...well, all 200 people in the room were, to tell the truth.
She was wearing a short dress and had no underwear on...a recipe for, ahem...a situation.
She flashed the audience her private parts.
The bids did go up substantially for the next item!
No one seemed to mind but she was REALLY embarrassed the next day when informed of her transgression.
And on to the next item, I went to David this afternoon to buy a Christmas present for Yella.
It was mayhem!!!
They were felling trees across the road, repairing cars out in the middle of the road and the taxis--really small taxis--were darting around as if shot out of cannons.
I don't know why I didn't have an accident. By all rights, I should be in a ditch somewhere along the way.
But I did stop by the fish market and get fresh Red Snapper fillets for $2.60 a pound and Tuna for $3 a pound.
Can't beat that!
I am going to prepare Red Snapper Veracruz Style tonight.
I can't wait!
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