{"id":37342,"date":"2017-11-23T19:37:48","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T01:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/?p=37342"},"modified":"2017-11-23T19:38:37","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T01:38:37","slug":"home-water-delivery-finally-sorted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/home-water-delivery-finally-sorted\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Water Delivery Finally Sorted!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are a number of companies that sell water in door-to-door in M\u00e9rida. I&#8217;m partial to &#8220;Cristal&#8221; brand as I find it has the best flavour. So I bought two 5-gallon jugs of it when I moved here and figured that it shouldn&#8217;t be that hard to get a truck to come and replace them with full ones once a week.<\/p>\n<p>Slight hiccup, I haven&#8217;t seen a single Cristal truck in my neighbourhood (despite there being numerous Cristal water sellers) and a Google search turned up nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Driving in a different part of town the other day, I finally saw an elusive Cristal truck! I made a mental note of the very easy to remember number and called them up. Turns out that that was a national number and I got caught in a phone loop that was hard to make sense of. But I did figure out who makes Cristal water (Bepensa). A quick Google search for that made me realise that the Coca-Cola trucks running around the neighbourhood have Cristal water. So I decided to flag one down next time I saw one near my house.<\/p>\n<p>But Bepensa also had an email address so I decided to try that, explaining that I&#8217;ve been trying to get water delivery and giving my address and phone number.<\/p>\n<p>Well, just minutes after I posted my last post, I saw a red truck with bottles go by my house. I would never have seen it if the exterior office door hadn&#8217;t been open. I was fumbling to put on sandals to go chase after it when my phone rang. It was the guys in the truck trying to find me! I&#8217;m amazed by how hard of a time people have finding my house when my street is so clearly marked and there is a plaque with my address by the door.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, after confirming my address and what my house looks like, at the guy&#8217;s suggestion I went to the street with an empty jug. There, I saw the red truck somewhere down the next block with a guy standing by it talking to me on the phone. \ud83d\ude42 I waved him down and he drove backwards all the way back to me!<\/p>\n<p>He said that he comes by my house every Monday and Thursday around four like clockwork. So with my having one nearly full jug now and a brand new one, I should be just fine with a once a week delivery of one jug as I go about 10 to 11 days on two jugs depending on how much I&#8217;m cooking. I therefore asked them to stop on Thursdays and told them that I&#8217;m home working and it&#8217;s guaranteed that I&#8217;ll be home. Perfect. I also got a number and name in case I won&#8217;t be home or that I need Monday delivery as well.<\/p>\n<p>My current water routine has been this:<\/p>\n<p>-Convince the garage doors to open;<\/p>\n<p>-Squeeze Moya out of her parking bay;<\/p>\n<p>-Convince the garage doors to close (was advised to not leave them open even just going on a quick run);<\/p>\n<p>-Drive about eight blocks to get to the Extra convenience two blocks away (dang one ways);<\/p>\n<p>-Wait for the gal at the convenience store to wait on me;<\/p>\n<p>-Drive two blocks home;<\/p>\n<p>-Convince the garage doors to open;<\/p>\n<p>-Squeeze Moya back into her bay (harder when I approach from that direction);<\/p>\n<p>-Convince the garage doors to close.<\/p>\n<p>Cost of the water that way: 26 pesos.<\/p>\n<p>Cost of the water to have a guy drop it at my curb: 28 pesos. That&#8217;s what I&#8217;d call a no-brainer.<\/p>\n<p>So there&#8217;s another thing sorted only because I&#8217;m not terrified of the phone anymore. I think I&#8217;m doing quite nicely at getting myself settled in. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a number of companies that sell water in door-to-door in M\u00e9rida. I&#8217;m partial to &#8220;Cristal&#8221; brand as I find it has the best flavour. So I bought two 5-gallon jugs of it when I moved here and figured that it shouldn&#8217;t be that hard to get a truck to come and replace them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[895],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-merida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37342"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37345,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37342\/revisions\/37345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}