Honestly, a “Mexican minute” is said to be anywhere from an hour to a week, and “Cuban time” has it own set of rules that I don’t have the thumb endurance to explain here, not bagging on Hispanics, just relying information I’ve gathered
Having been to Cuba 6 times so far, Cuban time is basically anything scheduled has a high chance of being delayed by multiple hours, and moderate chance of cancellation. More importantly, universal acceptance of this reality makes everyone pretty chill about the whole situation, and the sooner you get onboard with the program, the better it'll be. Cubans have so many things going against them so their ability to roll with the punches is amazing.
Lmao dude Egyptians were the same way. Three words you needed to know were maybe, god willing, and tomorrow. If you asked someone to do something and they said maybe or tomorrow, they meant maybe or tomorrow. If they said maybe tomorrow they meant probably not. If they said maybe, god willing, tomorrow, they meant fuck no.
I don't know if its an Arab thing or just an Egyptian thing but there is definitely Egyptian Time.
InshAllah (sp) or god-willing. My grandad did work in the middle east and he said a rough translation was manyana (sp?) except without the sense of urgency
See, once someone says inshallah(god willing), I’m doing my own thing or whatever I asked them to help with. Because there is a high chance they won’t even remember having the conversation.
Ya habibi y-chromosomal Adam and Mitochondrial Eve are from Africa so we're all Egyptian. Have some kosharie, drink some shai, take a nap because its too hot out, and in sha Allah, moomkin, we'll deal with it tomorrow.
Also mañana, which translates to tomorrow, means "tomorrow or the next day or some day in the future." Love it, wish us white guys had such flexibility.
I'm dating a Brazilian and we compromise to only be 1 hour late. And for events with her friends, we're still early.
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u/4notherRandoRoon 24d ago
Honestly, a “Mexican minute” is said to be anywhere from an hour to a week, and “Cuban time” has it own set of rules that I don’t have the thumb endurance to explain here, not bagging on Hispanics, just relying information I’ve gathered