If Tucson were Quepos

If Tucson were Quepos...

Everyone on your street would sell something different out of their houses.  They would signify this with hand drawn signs - pencil on paper. 

It would be completely normal for your neighbor to be watching the soccer game on their front porch as if it was the inside of his living room.

You would kill a minimum of 5 cockroaches a night.  It would become so normal that you would look for them to great you as you came home from work.

You would finally get tired of this process and give in, spending an hour and a half's salary on roach traps.

Your friend would invent an air conditioner made out of a styrofoam cooler, frozen things from his refrigerator, and a fan.

Chickens would walk down your street as if they owned it.  The roosters would begin crowing at 1 am to let you know that morning would be arriving in anywhere between 1 and 4 hours.

Some people would still burn their trash.

Some people would cook outside, and not on a bbq.

You wouldn't really be able to tell, sometimes, what was inside and what was outside... since walls often wouldn't go all the way up to the tin roofs.  

You would be able to fix anything out of anything.

Everyone would greet you as you passed by their houses.

And everyone would LAUGH a lot more often!!! About EVERYTHING.

Air Conditioning - Tico Style

*Guess what grammar point I have been teaching.... ;] (Answer: 2nd conditional - hypothetical situations)