Am I In a Third World Country?

I had the oddest experience today. Coming home from school, I saw an older Asian women, traditionally dressed in a skirt with a scarf over her head. She was at the edge of a front yard, scooping water with a bowl out of the gutter and into a bucket… There are very few Asian people in this west Texas town. To see a women gathering water in this way is a first.

When I came home, my apartment once again was without water. For reasons unfathomable to me, they seem to have it turned off every few weeks for maintenance of some kind or another.

Oh well. I have a bowl.