A Market Friday with an unexpected ending

over 1 year ago

This morning was no different from the rest of the days this week, and I had to go out to do some errands. Among other things, I had to send some documents by courier. And after sending them, it was around midday.

We were in the Chacao area, and for days, I wanted to go to the Municipal Market to see if they had free-range eggs. Here we call them huevos picatierra.

My husband has been complaining lately that his stomach is getting upset when he eats eggs. But these days, we were given some free-range eggs that he liked. I remembered that a long time ago, I used to get them at the municipal market in Chacao. So I decided that since we were in the area to check it out.

I haven't been to this market for a long time. I used to go there often, but the prices here have become too high. And despite the freshness of the products, it is not worth it. But free-range eggs were a good motivation to go.

As it was almost noon, the market was quiet. The crowded hour is in the early morning. Since we were only making a quick entrance, I decided to stop in the street in front of the market, where I was "lucky" to get a space, or so I thought at the time.

The first thing we did was to look for the eggs, and there was no free range. They have the same eggs that can be found in supermarkets.

My son's girlfriend was going to visit in the afternoon, and I thought that as the girl doesn't eat meat, we could buy fish for a Ceviche. So I went to the fish market and bought a whole Curvina. Which they cut into strips, and chopped up for the Ceviche, and left me the head to make a soup. A kilo of Curvina was 10 dollars, a bit expensive, but the fish looked fresh and was not very big.

Then I went to the veggie area and bought chilies, red onion, and coriander for the ceviche.

One of the reasons why I stopped going to this market is because some prices became exorbitantly expensive, and sometimes the difference between one stall and another is big. At one of the fruit stalls, they tried to sell me lemons at 15 Bs per kilo, almost 3 dollars. But at the stall where I bought chilies, the lemons were at 6 Bs (1 dollar) per kilo, so I bought some for the Ceviche.

As I was planning to make this post to #MarketFriday initiated by @dswigle. And as Denise loves flowers and me too, I went out to the flower stalls in the market to take a picture for #alwaysaflower.

At that moment, our visit to the market came to an abrupt end. My son, who had been walking around the other side of the market, came up to me to tell me that he had looked out into the street and noticed that the cart was gone. F**k.

We went out into the street, and some people told us that the car had just been towed away. In chalk, they had written where they had taken it. A couple of men approached us, offering to take us to the place, but our sense of security made us turn them down. Instead, we decided to walk to the square and call a friend to do us the favor of looking for us.

We arrived to pick up the car to find that the amount of the fine was 2Bs. I could not believe it. That's less than half a dollar. But of course, the trick is that you have to pay the tow truck driver to recover the car, and not just the fine. So we paid for that 20 dollars.

Facts aside, I wonder how the fine can be only 2 Bs. But I guess this is part of that Latin American magic realism that we live in this country, and that even for us is sometimes hard to understand.

On the way out of there, and after all the time we wasted, we made a quick stop for a couple of burgers with plantain chips. And the ceviche was left for dinner or maybe for tomorrow.

And so, in an unexpected way ended my trip to the market this Friday.

If you made it this far, thank you very much for reading.

_{All images and writing are my own unless otherwise stated.}

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August 05, 2022

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41 comments

@ijohnsen 65

over 1 year ago

What a busy day for you guys.
That burger was needed from the stress and walk all over the market to the fine paid.
I hope you ended up resting from all these.

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