Tuesday, April 22, 2014

In Mexicoma Super Sick

Tim McGraw wrote a song about being in a mexicoma, but I'm guessing it didn't make it to the top of the charts, as many people do not understand me when I ask them if they were in a mexicoma.  I decided to research the definition of mexicoma and found these definitions online in the Urban Dictionary:

1.  The state of being so completely full of Mexican food, you feel like you're going to pass out.
i.e.:  I just ate a huge burrito at La CosteƱa, I think I'm going to slip into a mexicoma. Ugh.

2.  The sleepy feeling you get after consuming an exorbitant amount of Mexican food.
i.e.:  After I ate an enchilada platter, two baskets of chips and pozole in one sitting I felt like I was in a mexicoma.

3.  A disoriented state usually preceded by a rough night of partying in Mexico.
i.e.:  Joe: We were in downtown Cancun at Coco Bongo until 5am, it's insane over there.
Kerry: It's 2 in the afternoon, where is everyone now?
Joe: They're in their rooms suffering from mexicomas. 

4.  The state of being you get on May 6th after drinking on Cinco de Mayo.
i.e.:  Jim was so out of it today, suffering from the mexicoma he sustained from drinking at the Mexican themed bar last night.

If you get sick, it's better to go to work and suffer through than to deal with the local public hospital.  If you miss a day for illness, you must provide your employer with a doctor's note, and here there is only one place for employees to go, a lovely place called "Instituto Mexicano Seguro Social" aka IMSS.  I think this must REALLY stand for "In Mexicoma Super Sick".  This is one place you don't ever want to go in Mexico, you will wait all day just to get stand-by status, and when you have a fever of 40 degrees and feel like passing out, it's not a place you want to spend 5 hours trying to see a doctor on stand-by in 30 degrees humid weather!  There are plenty of private clinics and hospitals where you can pay to see a doctor for 300-500 pesos, but employers won't recognize this for your payroll.


Would you trust a hospital that can't afford to replace a missing letter?




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