VERSI脫N EN ESPA脩OL
Mis m谩s sinceros saludos a todos en la comunidad.
Volver谩n las golondrinas, volver谩n las madreselvas... Pero nunca pens茅 que volver铆an las colas para el pollo en mi bodega.
Con el camino que ha tomado esto (digo, la situaci贸n social y econ贸mica en el pa铆s), donde ya casi todos los productos que consumimos en nuestros hogares tenemos que adquirirlos en mercados de nueva gesti贸n econ贸mica, es de creer que ya no tendr铆amos el placer de volver a vivir las experiencias de las tumultuosas colas en las bodegas del barrio.
A seis d茅cadas de tradici贸n haciendo colas, es l贸gico que sea siempre una costumbre en las personas y una cultura generacional del fen贸meno.
Hablando en buen cubano, a m铆 nadie puede hacerme cuentos de una cola, pues nac铆 (y no es una met谩fora) frente a la tienda del barrio. Y desde mi casa, hasta que disolvieron el barrio por marginal o insalubre, pude ver c贸mo se comportaban las personas en ese evento social.
Claro que yo solo era un colero pasivo, pero en el desarrollo, mi madre o mis hermanos mayores eran los encargados de esa tarea. Ya despu茅s, con la responsabilidad de jefe de n煤cleo, tuve que asumir directamente esa funci贸n criolla.
Y de all谩 para ac谩 he visto y participado en todo tipo de colas. Siempre tuvimos la esperanza de que las susodichas colas un d铆a desaparecieran de nuestra cotidianidad, pero por un proceso de crecimiento, donde el desarrollo l贸gico nos pondr铆a en niveles en que adquirir los recursos b谩sicos no estuviera vinculado a pasar horas enteras en un ambiente en que, adem谩s de p茅rdidas de tiempo, a veces perd铆amos hasta amistades vecinales, producto de los encontronazos, las rispideces, malos entendidos y el estr茅s colectivo.
Las golondrinas vuelven. Pero las colas (en la bodega) se demoran en volver.
Hoy volvi贸 una que ya estaba anunciada, pero que pocos cre铆an: la cola del pollo. O mejor dicho, para comprar el pollo.
驴Y que volvi贸 con la cola para adquirir el pollo!!
Pues todos los ingredientes de la "cola".
Una cola que se respete no puede carecer de:
Los que voluntaria y altruistamente se orientan para estibar la mercanc铆a (garant铆a de tener prioridad al comprar).
Las t铆picas coletas, que te dicen: "conmigo vienen diez m谩s, ahh". Y si aparece alguien de la familia, lo siento. Y puedes dar por sentado que aparecen familias y parientes.
Mujeres que no sacan al ni帽o al patio, y si el ni帽o (como hoy) tiene catarro, mejor, porque as铆 alguien dice: "se帽ores, dejen que pase ya, que miren qu茅 situaci贸n!!" Ella pasa con el ni帽o y autom谩ticamente llama a la abuela del beb茅 para que lo cuide mientras compra. 馃き馃槀馃槀
隆Pero c贸mo! Jjaa
El que llega y dice: "Alabao, se me fue el turno. 驴Ya fulano compr贸? Yo iba detr谩s de 茅l." Claro, fulano nunca estuvo en la cola. 馃槀
El que llega preguntando qui茅n es el 煤ltimo, y a las dos veces que pregunta, saca de pronto al impulsivo y dice: "Ahhh. 隆No aparece el 煤ltimo! Pues entonces soy el primero." Y ya saben, ah铆 se form贸.
Hoy en mi bodega, despu茅s de "tanto tiempo y tanta tempestad", volvi贸 el pollo. Y volvi贸 la cola que se hab铆a desaparecido, pero no por la l贸gica del desarrollo que todos so帽谩bamos, sino por la l贸gica de la escasez y el subdesarrollo.
Las colas tambi茅n eran espacios activos para interactuar entre personas que, incluso viviendo cerca geogr谩ficamente, la cotidianidad no les permit铆a el contacto presencial. Y cada vez que se armaba una, ya fuera por lo de la canasta b谩sica 馃 o por otros productos 馃馃悢 (馃惔馃珟馃悅), aprovechaban la oportunidad para actualizarse sobre los 煤ltimos acontecimientos sucedidos dentro y fuera de la comarca.
Sinceramente, el cubano de a pie extra帽a mucho las colas, y no solo por lo de la tradici贸n, costumbre o cultura, sino porque al final representaban la garant铆a de acceder, desde la forma m谩s barata, a paliar un poco de sus necesidades cotidianas.
Esta tarde, mi bodega, que desde hace bastante tiempo, junto con la bodeguera, se la pasa de bostezo en bostezo, ha estado como resucitando aquel esp铆ritu comunitario de las colas que viene casi desde nuestros ancestros.
Gracias por acompa帽arme un rato para comprar el pollo. Digo, para comprar el pollo. Digo, los muslos de pollo.
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ENGLISH VERSION
My most sincere greetings to everyone in the community.
The swallows will return, the honeysuckle will return... But I never thought that the lines for chicken in my warehouse would return.
With the path this has taken (I mean, the social and economic situation in the country), where almost all the products we consume in our homes we have to purchase in new economic management markets, it is to be believed that we would no longer have the pleasure of reliving the experiences of the tumultuous lines at the neighborhood bodegas.
After six decades of tradition of waiting in lines, it is logical that it is always a custom among people and a generational culture of the phenomenon.
Speaking in good Cuban, no one can tell me stories about a line, since I was born (and it is not a metaphor) in front of the neighborhood store. And from my house, until they dissolved the neighborhood because it was marginal or unhealthy, I was able to see how people behaved at that social event.
Of course I was only a passive tailgater, but in development, my mother or my older brothers were in charge of that task. Later, with the responsibility of head of the nucleus, I had to directly assume that Creole function.
And from there to here I have seen and participated in all kinds of queues. We always had the hope that the aforementioned queues would one day disappear from our daily lives, but through a process of growth, where logical development would put us at levels in which acquiring basic resources was not linked to spending entire hours in an environment in which, in addition to losing time, we sometimes even lost neighborhood friendships, as a result of clashes, disagreements, misunderstandings and collective stress.
The swallows return. But the lines (at the winery) take a while to return.
Today one came back that was already announced, but that few believed: the chicken line. Or rather, to buy the chicken.
And he came back with the queue to buy the chicken!!
Well, all the ingredients of the "cola".
A queue that is respected cannot lack:
Those who voluntarily and altruistically orient themselves to stow the merchandise (guarantee of having priority when purchasing).
The typical queues, which tell you: "with me come ten more, ahh." And if anyone from the family shows up, I'm sorry. And you can assume that families and relatives appear.
Women who do not take the child out into the yard, and if the child (like today) has a cold, the better, because then someone says: "gentlemen, let it happen now, look at what the situation is!!" She walks by with the child and automatically calls the baby's grandmother to take care of him while she shops. 馃き馃槀馃槀
But how! Haha
The one who comes and says: "Alabao, my turn is gone. Has so-and-so bought yet? I was after him." Of course, so-and-so was never in line. 馃槀
The one who comes asking who is the last, and the two times he asks, suddenly brings out the impulsive person and says: "Ahhh. The last one doesn't appear! Well then I'm the first." And you know, that's where it was formed.
Today in my warehouse, after "so much time and so much storm", the chicken returned. And the queue that had disappeared returned, but not due to the logic of development that we all dreamed of, but rather due to the logic of scarcity and underdevelopment.
The queues were also active spaces to interact between people who, even living geographically close, daily life did not allow face-to-face contact. And every time one was put together, whether it was for the basic basket 馃 or for other products 馃馃悢 (馃惔馃珟馃悅), they took advantage of the opportunity to update themselves on the latest events that happened inside and outside the region.
Honestly, ordinary Cubans miss the lines very much, and not only because of tradition, custom or culture, but because in the end they represented the guarantee of access, in the most cheap, to alleviate a little of their daily needs.
This afternoon, my winery, which for quite some time, together with the winery, has been going from yawn to yawn, has been resurrecting that community spirit of the lines that comes almost from our ancestors.
Thank you for joining me for a while to buy the chicken. I mean, to buy the chicken. I mean, chicken thighs.
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