Tuesday is trash day in our barrio (neighborhood) so the morning air is usually filled with a pretty rotten stench. Well, on this particular Tuesday morning the smell was so bad that it was overwhelming our apartment! Greg and I kept sniffing and moving through the house in attempt to find the odor´s source, but we could not find the cause. It wasn´t until we stepped outside that we discovered the root of the disgusting smell...In Comayagua on trash day, everyone just drops their bags outside their front door on the sidewalk for the garbage men to pick up. Since there are no front yards or lawns, the entrance to a house is basically only like 2 feet from the street (right off of the sidewalk). Therefore, the stinky rotten waste smell often creeps into the house uninvited. It is even more intense when the garbage men don´t collect the bags until the afternoon because the trash just bakes all day in the sun!
Back to the story---So it was only about 6:40am and the odor had alread
y overtaken our apartment, something was definitely unusual! Much to our surprise when we opened the front door we were greeted by none other than a donkey and a horse, standing their munching on some of the waste. Apparently the friendly duo was taking our street by storm and hitting the garbage piles one by one outside of each house or apartment. The smell was so intense because the animals were ripping the bags open, sorting through the scraps they wanted, and leaving behind those that they did not scattered all over the sid
ewalk and street. Greg and I could not believe our eyes as the tag team trotted proudly from one pile to the next, eating what they wanted then moving on to the following stack. They proceeded from house to house as if they owned the street! They hit the jackpot when they discovered an uncovered metal garbage can! Needless to say, Greg and I were a little late to school that day as we followed our animal friends around to take photos as they paraded through the neighborhood...it was definitely worth it though! I don´t know what ever happened to the two pals after that day as we haven´t seen them since. But, I venture to assume that they are two of the fattest and happiest animals in the area!
y overtaken our apartment, something was definitely unusual! Much to our surprise when we opened the front door we were greeted by none other than a donkey and a horse, standing their munching on some of the waste. Apparently the friendly duo was taking our street by storm and hitting the garbage piles one by one outside of each house or apartment. The smell was so intense because the animals were ripping the bags open, sorting through the scraps they wanted, and leaving behind those that they did not scattered all over the sid
ewalk and street. Greg and I could not believe our eyes as the tag team trotted proudly from one pile to the next, eating what they wanted then moving on to the following stack. They proceeded from house to house as if they owned the street! They hit the jackpot when they discovered an uncovered metal garbage can! Needless to say, Greg and I were a little late to school that day as we followed our animal friends around to take photos as they paraded through the neighborhood...it was definitely worth it though! I don´t know what ever happened to the two pals after that day as we haven´t seen them since. But, I venture to assume that they are two of the fattest and happiest animals in the area!
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1 comment:
Man,
Where was my burro y caballo wrangling business when you needed it? I could have made a couple bucks off of them. Great pics by the way, I love it!
K
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