Like a New Car

"This car was only driven by an old lady that drove it to bingo three times a week." Typical sales pitch.

I went back to where I bought this car as the sensory devise for the engine light was in need of repair. Seems like it was just two weeks ago I was in there but it’s been a good couple of months. As I was waiting in the “waiting room” if that is what you call it you know the areas that everyone sits reading magazine after magazine for an hour if not more, I merged around and looked at all the new cars and talked to a few of the sales men. And a quick fast discussion with the owner. From which gave me a very decent deal on the car.  I am not one that enjoys waiting. I will be honest – I just don’t enjoy waiting. To my surprise by the time I arrived and in getting through all the traffic, within an hour the service department had all everything fixed. This is a rather large operation. This Ford dealership it services are very large radius area and only has one other competitor within the city. Meanwhile there was a lady and her daughter standing there and I knew. I just knew they were of Spanish decent. Ironically, I will always approach in a decent manner. And to my amazement they were from Colombia, yet they have been living here for six months now and we started to laugh together as my Spanish has became so rusty, that I can’t speak it as well as I once could. I think not only were they intrigued with how well we hit it off but I was as well. It's been some time since I have run into anyone from this part of the world here. In another city, I found that it all came as a very normal thing - yet this city is growing. I find when you encounter people regardless of the culture it’s such a something very hard to explain the enjoyment within it. We did have a dialogue and the one lady was about to hand me her card as she was bilingual but one I mentioned some of the traditions – she came to understand that there was a very sincere dialogue. We laughed, we talked about Canada and Columbia some of the traditions that I recalled and we were laughing so hard that as it’s a manner that I really can’t point out as one has to have lived within it to understand it. It would be much the same way as Italians as close to what I could compare it too.  Then before you know it the guys were all looking and saying, “Jack your car is ready. So I told the ladies that I have to go the one looked again for her card but she couldn’t find it but I can’t tell you how much I enjoy people and especially cultures. It’s the side of me that has shaped my life and I truly look at it in more of a plus than a minus. Mind you, I do tend to get into a conversation and if it’s really enjoyable, I really do get engaged with it all, come to think of it – now I wish that the car took longer to have this sensory devise replaced. It’s funny how when you get away from a language how it slowly does come back but thank goodness that they were bilingual and had a very great grasp on the English language – maybe even better than myself. And I didn’t pull out the camera to take a picture of them, I have started to realize that everything is not within a picture or moments can be rendered and remised without the need to capture every portion of life. However I did get a few pictures of this Merlin Ford as I thought while I sat there I would be bored out of my head. So that was a plus. Must be the luck charm of "Merlin".

I have always found that when engaged with positive people regardless of where they come from there is there is always some good cause and affect a reciprocating effect it you will. The car is working just fine, the weather and it's been a very decent day to say the least...