As I quickly approach the 3 year mark of living in Costa Rica, which is unbelievable, I stopped and chuckled the other day at how many things that were once strange are now no less than normal.
On trash days, for me Wednesday and Saturdays, you can find many people digging through the trash of another to find anything salvageable or worth selling. These people are not usually homeless, just people looking for a find.
Then there are the delivery trucks. Just the other day the Coke truck pulled up to the pulperia by my house and it had a motorcycle escort of one security guy with his bulletproof vest and his gun as he stood guard for the guys to make their delivery. This is how it is with all the delivery trucks.
Then there are the homeless guys who are sleeping on the sidewalk and we just walk by. That still gets to me but it’s now a normal thing.
Then there is picking fruit off the tree as you walk to wherever you’re going. Mangos, lemons, oranges, bananas, you name it. I have yet to pick a banana off the tree as they always tend to be behind someone’s gate. I do have two orange trees in my yard that are just about ready for picking!
Then there are the critters, inside and outside of the house. Ants, cockroaches, flies, fruit flies, spiders (thankfully no tarantulas although they are all around and are huge!), and lizards, especially geckos. Every house has a gecko and it just chirps away sounding more like a bird than some 4 legged crawly thing. The other night, Pedro Jr. (the gecko) came out and decided he liked watching The Big Bang Theory with me. He on the floor and I on the couch. I looked at him, smiled, said hi and turned back to my show with no reaction of thinking “there’s a gecko on my living room floor”. Pedro Jr. hung out for awhile before going over to the window and I forgot all about him. It’s just normal.
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