According to Marcel, the “mooch factor” is the litmus test for the condition of society. He had said that, in Haiti, one could be solicited several times a day, every day by the poor in the streets; whereas in Colón he encountered beggars only a couple of times in three weeks. I have an update [...]
Archive for July, 2009
65. Settling into the Apartment
Posted in Panama on July 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Of course we deserved to be spared from an awful burglary; if we didn’t deserve clemency, then we wouldn’t have gotten it. We must have accumulated more good karma than I thought. Ordinarily, this situation would have been a slam-dunk for local thieves, even without keys. But we must fix this “old key” mistake and [...]
