Shipping things from Chile is an interesting experience. I guess I should have expected it, but I was caught off gaurd. I went a few days ago to send a charcoal painting back home (so it won't get ruined and it might be framed when I get back). Well they don't provide packing stuff. It is, very much, a do it yourself sort of thing. I went looking for cardboard on my way home, but seeing as it was the afternoon, all of the bums had cleared the cardboard out of all the garbage places. It's a weird place down here, there isn't any recycling, just put your trash on the street. Dogs eat left over food, bums get the cardboard, cans and bottles and what little is left goes to the dump. I hadn't realized that the food chain incorporated this so I had to use my own creative instincts.
When I got home I scoured the apartment for appropriate materials. Pocketknife, check. Tape, check. Building materials...still working on that. I didnt have much luck so I thought I'd have some cereal, the thinking man's food. I always seem to get some quality thinking done while eating a bowl of serial, not sure why that is but I can't be the only one. I finish off the last of the Zucarosos (Frosted Flakes) and since it was just the remnants of the box, I opened up the Zucaritas (uh...also Frosted Flakes). This, for obvious reasons, made me immediately stop thinking about my shipping quandry. How is it possible that there are both Zucaritas and Zucarosos with an orange Tiger on the front. I mean, really, they have to have some kinda of copyright/trademark infringement down here. The thing is the parent companies were both American (Zucaritas being General Mills and Zucarosos was Nestle). I mean I know you can get away with more down here but, c'mon, at least try to not completely mimic someone else. It made me so angry at Nestle that I decided to make it my shipping box. Wait a second, I just figured how to send my Painting home. Not so angry at Nestle now. It should be a nice surprise for everyone in the office to get a package out of Zucarosos (although i did invert it, brown on the outside, so as not to give it extra publicity). So while I'm going to stick with eating Zucaritas over Zucarosos, I can at least say that the cereal box is a great way to ship things.
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