Tou la uva!!
Jajaja, I really must laugh when I remember that night in Asuncion!
One of my best friends and neighbor owned a beatle 1980 model, very old, it was in very poor condition, sometimes it wouldn’t even start, other times it would stop in the middle of the road, but most of the time it was dead…but we were happy because for a while it was our only transportation way and we all were so glad
We just hoped arrive to our destination when we traveled on that car.
The car was literally falling apart, the seat were lose and everything inside was lose, rusty, dirty and broken, it even had a bee colony inside it (believe it), somehow my friend bought honey and it spilled it on the inside’s ground and a bee colony was growing there and as you imagine was super sticky
It didn’t even have windows and no locks.
I can’t think about anyone thinking about steeling this car anyway, would have been stupid to steel it.
My friend got that car very cheap but it was mostly at the garage anyway…..
So, that night my friend picked me up to go with a group of friends to Britannia Pub, a really cool place where we use to hang out a lot. So I sat there in the passenger sit and asked him where the seat belt was…he laugh at me and said, well, we are very lucky that this even has a motor.
It was around 1.20 am and we were on our way home and suddenly the car just stopped in the middle of the road…just like that! I said wow, what happened?, and then my friend told me that we ran out of gas, that was very typical with him because the fuel indicator was always broken.
I asked him what are we going to do now? and he said that he was prepared for a situation like this and he had a bottle of gas inside the car…thanks god! well, he went to fill the up the tank and then started the engine, and I wound’t star, he tried several times then looked at me and said, we ran out of battery! the battery is dead!
I started laughing (because this things rarely happen to me, it was a new experience, silly but cool one) and he said: To u la uva, the correct way to pronounce this sentence in Guarani is (To u la to ua) but he always said it this way TO U LA UVA (that was his typical fraise) and it means: que se venga lo que se venga, it’s like what should happen should happen, similar to saying: I’m ready for everything what’s coming or what’s going to happen, so we left the car there and walk 2 blocks to Marical Lopez Avenue and took a cab.
After that he left the car infront of his house and no long ago he wrote me and told me someone stole his car, and surprisingly he felt quite relieved about it because removing the car from in front of his house would have cost him more than the car itself.
And he said this story finished so badly as it started. (meanwhile if was fun)
