ELECTRONIC TUNES EVERYWHERE

The first week we were here, we were upstairs and we heard this electronic tune and Mike said, “It’s the ice cream truck again”. I asked, “Why do think it’s an ice cream truck?” “Well, because I heard it the other day, and then I saw there is a little ceramic square on the wall by the kitchen door with a drawing of some kind of cart, and it seems the music comes from there”. “That has to be the door bell, then! It’s usually by the kitchen door in Uruguay too!” We run to the door and there they were a couple (professor and wife) waiting for us! And yes indeed, they had been at our door the day before, but Mike thought it was some kind of loud ice cream truck. :) Now Ignacio loves to ring the door bell, it has several tunes. Well, it turned out Taiwanese are very fond of these little tunes: when the washing machine it’s done, it plays a tune. Also the garbage truck plays a tune to let you know it’s at your street (you need to get out and walk your garbage bags to the truck, also the recycling, to a second truck). There is one tune for the garbage truck that comes to our door at 7:15 every night except on Sundays, and there is another one at 8:00, playing “Fur Elise” at the next corner! Ignacio is always reminding us, “Basurero, basurero (garbage truck/man)... Beethoven, mami, Beethoven!" Mike reminded me that the first week he was quite confused, between the jet lag, the language, everything so different… when something started playing a tune he didn’t know where to run! Is it the door?, the house phone downstairs?, the Vonage phone upstairs?, the new cell phone?, the washing machine?, the garbage man?!!