Chihuahua

My last trip took me to Chihuahua Mexico. I left last Thursday night and was home Friday night. A rare occurrence happened while getting ready to land...the pilot missed the runway. Not once, but twice. So on the third approach he finally got it right and we landed. This trip was last minute. Turns out I had to fire someone. What a terrible thing that my job requires. So down there I went. I met with the employee and the manager. The manager broke the bad news and then I was left to finish up with the employee. Worse yet, he had a company car which I had to take from him. I did arrange for a taxi to take him home though. Its always nerve racking to have to tell someone they can no longer work for the company. I bet I've done this well over a thousand times (I'm horrible I know) but it never gets any easier. I've told myself that if this part of my job ever gets easy then I need to find a new one. I had one guy in a previous job make the shape of a wave with his arm and in one sweeping motion shoved every item off my desk onto the floor. I called security.

I was also in Mexico for a different purpose. You see my wife found a pair of children's shoes that are only manufactured and sold in Mexico - mini burbujas. Do you know what that means? Anyways she came from shopping one day and asked me "so do you ever have any trips to Mexico?" I told her I may have one coming up. Needless to say along with ending someones employment I was also tasked with cruising around Chihuahua to find not one but two pairs of mini burbujas. So my friend Pablo drove me to three different malls looking for these shoes. Mind you I was racing against the clock so I didn't miss my flight. Chihuahua has but two flights a day. If I missed it I was spending the night. Well after more than an hour searching we came up empty handed. No mini burbujas this trip. To console my wife, I told her that in April I have to go to Nogales Mexico. Perhaps there we'll see better results...that trip is only meetings thankfully.