Burrito Sabanero
Burrito Sabanero
About nine years ago, I was ordered by my doctor to have a colonoscopy. Now, I have never had one of those and you hear so many stories so I became apprehensive. The idea of somebody sticking a camera — A CAMERA!!! — up your rear end did not sound really pleasant. Well, I must do it…so let’s get it done!
The previous day, I started taking the liquid they give you and in no time I was pumping it out every single thing I had in my intestines. The next day, Lupe took me to the hospital in Whittier. So, in I go.
I remember I was very nervous. So they take me to the table and start prepping me out. I forgot to mention that his was a 23 of December, Christmas time. A young Mexican lady nurse, she sees me that I am a bundle of nerves, she starts talking to me, asking me if I was going to have a party, if we are making tamales and all that, so I was answering the best that I can.
Suddenly she says, “Señor Gomez, you like music?” I said yes.
Then she said, “You know, I just made this CD with Christmas music in Spanish. Would you like to listen to it?” I said yes.
So here I am listening to “Feliz Navidad”, “El Año Viejo” and when they start getting this stupid cable up my ass , these cute little boys’ voices start singing “El Burrito Sabanero”. Man! I started laughing!
Now, from this moment on, every time I hear this song I will remember when I was in such a sticky situation at my colonoscopy.
A Belen, a Belen, voy camino a Belen.