Smashing Class ideas and fun with kids. (long)

Central America is very Class system based. I find all the ideas of a class system comical.

I have always noticed it and tried to understand and respect these ideas.

Not that I buy the ideas, it is just hard to get the local people to see the ridiculousness of some of their beliefs.

So I few days ago I was posting here.

My foreman needed to get a part for one of our tractors. He was heading to a Mennonite settlement to get it.

The name of the place is Spanish Lookout. The Mennonite's have really helped Belize. They have stores and businesses.

Whenever a worker goes out of the jungle and into a town or city it is very common for them to take their kids and wives with them so they can do shopping.

Anyway I knew my foreman was going and I could see the truck he was driving was full of people. There is room for about 6 in the front and back seat.

All the seats were full and there was 2 kids in the back of the truck.

Then I decided I needed a few things at the big store in Spanish Lookout. So without a word I walked to the truck.

My Foreman started the truck as I jumped in the back of the truck. The second my Foreman noticed I had got in the back, everything stopped.

He turned off the engine and started to tell his wife that she needed to move so I could sit in the front seat. I would not let him do that.

Pandemonium ensued.:willy_nilly:

Our cook offered to stay. I refused to let her. One of the wives of a worker said she would be happy to sit in back. I said she was not going anywhere.

Meanwhile the kids in the back think this is the most hilarious thing they have seen. One of the worker disappeared into the bush about a mintier later workers and their families started showing up. All of them were shocked. Kids were laughing and the families of the workers were giggling and pointing at me.

All of this BS is because they thought a man (their boss) should not ride in the back of a truck. Incredibly silly.

Finally I had had enough. I informed my Foreman that if he liked his job he best start the motor and go. He understood what I said and we were off.

The two kids in back were thrilled that an actual adult would ride in the back of the truck with them.

So we were off. As we were riding the kids would see cows and horses and point them out to me.

We laughed and had a ball. I forgot what it was like riding in the back of a truck. i remembered doing it as a kid.

I had forgotten what it is like to feel the wind blowing through my hair.

I noticed how kids see things in the world that adults miss. It was a refreshing feeling.

When we got back from the trip and rode up the long road to the farm there were all kinds of people around. Looking pointing and laughing.

I jumped out of the truck and walked up to my house.

It was a good day. The result was rewarding. The kids of the workers used to be terrified by me. They would be very polite but they would avoid contact with me.

Well know that changed. Every time the kids see me they smile and talk.

Kids are fun.

 

AWWWWWW. how awesome. one would think the boss gets to sit where the boss wants to sit. though it's funny only the women were "moving."

 

Yea, I would have thought this wold have been real simple.

The woman were supposed to move and give me the front seat. At least according to the Machismo attitudes around here.

That is what is expected.

Warped? You bet it is!

Even on something like double dates. The two men sit in the front and the two women in back.

How stupid is that? I want to be in back with my date. Why ride in front if your date is in the back?

I put a stop to that one (at least on the dates I go on).

I do not understand these people sometimes.

 

I would always ride in the back when I was a kid, because it's fun... people would always point and me and talk about the white kid in the back of a truck.

 

i've seen the navajos do that a time or two. grandma in a chair riding in the back of the truck. the secret is, it's awesome. asian women do that a lot, i've noticed, until they get full-on american spoiled.

 

Hell yes it is fun. The only difference is with me they are laughing at a gringo adult riding in the back of the truck.

It is awsome! I will be happy in the back of the truck any day.

 

Bump!

Because I can.

 

I dont think its necessarily a class thing. Like you said its a man being a man thing. Chivalry isnt alive much.. especially with the older generations who see women as baby making machines. I saw it alot growing up and one or two men tried that shit on me.. haha naa.. i have that american sense of entitlement KC was talking about.

 

Well whatever it was, it was funny to watch, because every part of my Foreman did not want to start the truck without me being in the front seat.

So I was yelling at him and you could see a part of him finally give in and start the truck.

Chivalry is alive. Just not in Central America.

I will have to find KC's thread on entitlement. As I am not sure what that is.

 

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I was referring to this post. the last sentence. Its funny how hard people stare. In my side of town its a heavily mexican area and every time I go anywhere with a white boy we get stared at the entire time. Not with a white girl, although they still stare coz my best friend is super hawt. but yeah, when Im with a white boy, which is always, people, especially men get really uneasy. some have made comments assuming I dont speak spanish. they think im a traitor.. but a mexican man's greatest achievement is bagging a white woman. its crazy.
I cant believe im gonna be an aunt. I hope I develop a liking to kids. I havent been around a kid or a baby ever. ack.

 

Okay, I get it.

Hell yea you are entitled! Enjoy life.

I can relate to what your saying about dating a Mexican girl.

The difference is the men get real shocked when this white boy starts speaking Spanish.

 

hahaha hell yeah Im entitled. I am a woman, and I demand respect. Im also very mouthy. hehe

yeah, when a white person speaks spanish everything changes. they become accepting. I love going somewhere with my best girl and seeing her hold her own and ask for what she wants in spanish. she doesnt speak it but just enough to buy stuff, but its awesome. my bro in law speaks a few words, my gay boy is picking up stuff too.. i love it. I dont speak spanish much.. hell, i think they use it more than I do.

 

Oh, sorry I should have explained.

I was bumping the intelligence level of RT. Because I could.

j/k or am I?

No basically what happened is I made this post Saturday morning. Like 20 people read it before RT became totally clogged with crap.

Not that I mind crap, after all I post a great amount of it here,

But my post was a Random Thought and I post to get feedback from others. (well either that or hit on them, or just totally bs with some of the cool people here ).

So yes I suppose it was real tacky to bump my own thread...but in my defence...I could and did.

 

Its against the law to ride in the back of trucks now. But damn I can remember those days too. The wind, the laughing, and the views.

We toured Yosemite one year while riding in the back of the truck laying down, looking up at the huge granite walls and looking at the waterfalls. It was a whole different view than what we had seen before.

 

and aint nothing wrong with that. I wouldnt have seen it if you hadnt bumped it.

 

I know!

I stood up most of the way down to the store and all of the way back. It was so cool!

We went through a checkpoint and they waved us through.

I am riding in the back of the truck more often.

You Rock!.

 

is there really a racial aspect to riding in the back of a truck now? if so, me and every white kid i grew up with is actually black or hispanic...

 

I know!! hehe

 

very cool experience UA. haha... i too love the expressions on people's face when a white person starts speaking spanish. i usually listen to conversations for a good long while before i let on that i speak spanish and understand every word they're saying. hehehe. i'm evil.