Soon you will be one more
Not all towns are the same , we know. But what is certain is that the majority of those who populate this Iberian land of ours share a certain idiosyncrasy, a particular air that has nothing to do with the one that is breathed in the cities... and that can be summed up in ten Commandments that urbanites will already learn in their early neo-rural days :
1. YOU SHALL NOT STEAL
Or, better said: they will not rob you. Because nothing will happen if you leave your car unlocked while you go to the greengrocer, and, although it costs you horrors at first, you will soon forget the considerations you have in the city by not leaving a single Mercadona bag in sight. You know, in case someone thinks it's full of 500 bills...
two. YOU WILL NOT WAIT
Monday, nine in the morning, City Hall. You, urbanite, got up early to get a seat in the queue and get that little piece of paper that you need so much fixed, but oh, surprise! No one! You could have come at 12:00 and you would have finished with the management in the same time: five minutes. Town: 1; city: 0!
3. YOU WILL NOT BEEP
You have come to town to inflame yourself with leisurely pace of its people, and now it turns out that you find yourself beeping your neighbors at the first opportunity. Not that way; this is not the M30 , little friend And you'd better forget about rushing, because if the butcher, who's in the car in front, has stopped to talk to the pharmacy -even if that means leaving the engine off and getting out of the car-, you won't there is no choice but to gather patience and wait for the conversation to end; anything else would be outright considered blunt. Oh, and better if, while you wait, you do it with a smile.
Sometimes, the caravans that you will live will not be precisely cars...
Four. YES YOU WILL FELLOWSHIP
And you will do it at the bakery, with the bank teller, with that man who walks by the place where you drink your coffee every morning... And, in summer, you will do it sitting in the chair you've pulled out to the sidewalk pa 'hold it down. Forget your city squeamishness and mingle!
5. YOU WILL NOT DISTRUST
That you have left your wallet at home? In the fish market they will trust you without thinking twice. What would you like to know how that man does so that those beautiful peppers always grow? They will not be satisfied with telling you his secret: they will take you to his door and introduce him to you. Of course, by the same rule of three, you can go forgetting your intimacy, and even the data protection to which you are supposed to be entitled...
6. YES YOU WILL FORGET YOUR NAME
You will no longer be María or Manuel. From now on, your name will depend on your ancestors . You are "Lola's daughter", "Ramona's boy" or "The workshop's daughter-in-law". And if your family is not from the land, don't worry; they will find a way to identify you: "The one from the house on the hill", "The one who works with Pedro" and, assume it once and for all, "the foreigner" . All that, of course, if they don't put you a nickname...
You too will end up bringing the chairs to the door...
7. YES YOU WILL WAR
It is difficult for everyone to agree with the change of direction of one street or the installation of lampposts in another, but what is clear is that You will never hear so much discontent as in a town. Everyone has something to say, and everyone needs to be heard, whether at the bar or at the club! facebook group ! Yes, because the towns of today have Facebook groups, and if there is a maxim in them, it is that everything was better before. Before when? For each one it will mean one thing. Before, in these cases, it is not a unit of time, but nostalgic.
8. YES YOU WILL CELEBRATE
Because you will have no choice: in the villages, the parties are multiplied by two; not only is there the fair, there is the August fair... and the May fair. Not only the cavalcade, but also the pilgrimage. Not only the carnival, but also the festival of [insert product of the land here]. And the crosses. And the processions. Y the traditions that were generated hundreds of years ago and are still as alive as ever. And above all, the festivals of the surrounding towns, a necessary excursion to overcome the inbreeding of the area and meet boys and girls of an age to deserve.
9. YES YOU WILL EAT WELL
and don't miss you gain a few kilos because here that phrase so coined that "tomato tastes like tomato , and the bread, to bread". Now, this, which seems glorious at first, is a curse; you will not be able to think of buying those moist gas station baguettes , and you will spit out the mixed salad from the beach bar in horror.
10.**YES YOU WILL THANK YOU (IN KIND!)**
Or maybe you are the object of that bag of oranges that they bring you from the field for having treated them so well. It does not matter if you are a physiotherapist, a teacher or a computer scientist: if you do your job efficiently, you can be sure that you will return home with more food than you could eat in a million years. Take advantage!
The flavors of the town will change your life...