Water Delivery Timing Opps!

There are three companies that deliver 5 gallon jugs of drinking water door to door in our barrio, generally on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday each week. My personal favourite is "Aguazul" reputed to be the cleanest but "Arroyo" and "Pingoino" are also used by my neighbours.


Generally, I start hearing their call outs a couple streets away and have lots of time to get out on the patio to wave them upstairs for my own delivery. Each company has their own "short form" call - though "Agua, agua" is the predominant announcement. Arroyo sounds like a long "a row ho", Aguazul is more a "agua zoo zoo" and Pingoino is the most confusing for me as it sounds like a rapid "eeno eeno".






Usually, the companies follow each other in about half hour installments but there must have been a mixup this morning as the two trucks were nose to tail with each other as they wended their way through the barrio. Given the size of these trucks and sundry vehicles parked along the narrow street, as well as my neighbours' preferred water choices, there wasn't a chance for either of them to get out of the log jam!

So the workers called out, hustled in and out of homes and managed their deliveries in record time as no other vehicle traffic could access our street during this course of events.

For me, a slightly-disabled small woman, having 5 gallons of water delivered into the stand in my upstairs apartment is a blessing and for only 27 Lps ($1.50 USF or just under $2 CAN) a jug. Some things are affordable for "supposedly rich" gringas here in Honduras and quite frankly, this isn't light work for the employees either!