On money - part 1 of many many more stories

The most important part of life in Chile is waiting for the money to come. You hear everyday “espero que me depositaron dinero” (I hope they have paid to my account). I think people have iphones just to check if money has arrived. If you see long long line in front of the cash machine there are two things that might have happened: all the other atm (cajeros)  in the neighborhood are without money (that happens every end of the every month when the salary arrives) or
For European 200 people waiting in the line  to change check into cash is also quite a surprise. They REALLY wait. If there is system giving you number and aprox hour installed you still wait cause.. without money there is not much to do... And of course chilenos do not have savings. They have hope that money will appear soon. 

Sometimes people are called that money is waiting and immediately they go to some place to take cash from jefe hands. Well.. just after they manage to borrow money for the taxi. Then they spend half of it immediately to give back money they borrowed (but only the nicer part of them) and to buy breakfast or beer. What they going to do the next day? Wait till “me depositaron” or do the “favor trick”.

Presta me plata - favour trick

This is very important sentence. When you hear: “puedes hacer mi favor” (could you do me a favor) or “da mi una mano” (cuould you help me with something) during the shopping with chileno, you can be 99% sure that the next sentence will be: “presta ma 5 luca” (borrow me 5 thousands). And of course he will promise to give it back when “me depositaron”. 

Some remarks on the buying food today

So here we are in the nice peaceful neighborhood with a lot of little one floor houses and 3-5 bigger edificios. Let's sum up what you can buy in the place inhabited by ca 1000 people.
Plenty of the shops. Most of them officially selling everything "pollo verduras carne bebidas hay pan amasado alimentos" , charging phones, coping documents and so on..

1. Pan alias bread. For 10 offering pan, it was available at 8.
2. Verduras alas vegetables. In 4 from 6 offering you could buy potatoes, lemon, onion and few tomatoes. Not in the best state anyway. In one they have additionally had cauliflower, leek and lettuce. Mushrooms - forget it, paprika - no way, cabbage - why one would need to buy a cabbage, question "hay mas verduras" / "do you have any other veggies" was always taken as a kind of offence.
3. Copies - none. 
4. Recharge - have not dared to ask. It always work better in the chemistry.

Anyway - I already knew where to buy escudo (beer) and sweets. So came back home with one liter of tasty water, cauliflower, papas and eggs. No rissotto for me.

First portion of the observation on transportation issues OOE

I was talking with my friend about couple of things that make me sth really nervous about the city. And here are his answers.

1. Why there are no bus schedules - as they would be late anyway so you would rather keep the people calm. 
2. Why metro is so full? As the only positions that counts is at the door cause it is hard too leave the metro when it is so full in any other way.