Lo barato sale caro

It wasn’t so long ago (one week to the day, in fact), that I speculated that the road crew might have solved our chronic drainage problem. But I did harbor some concern that the plastic culvert, covered only by a thin layer of dirt, might not stand up to the weight of garbage and delivery trucks.

As I see today, I did not. It broke. Within a week.

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Proving once again what everyone here knows, but none seems to understand: doing things the cheap way ends up being expensive.

Expensive assuming they fix it. With general elections in the fall, the odds are better now than after, I’m told.


If you’re not a Spanish speaker, but want to show off, it’s lo bah-RAHT-o SAH-lay CAH-ro, with crisp Rs: English, not ‘Murkan.

What is cheap ends up expensive.

 

4 thoughts on “Lo barato sale caro

  1. You saw how long it took to repair the Rambla. A return visit to your street before the elections is really not something you can bet on. Love the flag.

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