-If you park your car in the shade of a tree, you risk a goat climbing onto your roof to eat the tree leaves. This can scratch your car.
-All those donkeys that appear to not belong to anyone actually don't belong to anyone. They wander around, graze on the meager caatinga grass, and occassionally pose danger to unaware motorists. They're fun to point out to children, especially when a baby donkey is following its mother around. But as beasts of burden, their value is now so low that people seem to just let them loose. Pilar has decent salaries for the region and is very isolated, so the automobile has taken over.
-Pilar was a company town built from scratch in the 1980s. The designers built the houses with one window in the front for peons, two windows for engineers, and four windows for managers. I'm not sure it would have been more expensive to make the peon houses slightly wider and less deep, allowing for more windows but a similar house size overall. But in any case, to this day if you tell someone you have a new house in pilar, they will immediately ask how many windows it has - since the models are almost all the same, this tells them everything they need to know about the house, except how you've decorated it.
-Miners suffer a lot, what with spending all day underground and risking their lives in case of collapse, but the ones performing the most difficult and dangerous tasks can retire after 15 year of service. Yes, 15 years! Since most rank and file miners don't go to college, they start pretty young. One I know is on pace to retire at age 35, at which point he can go back to school while earning a full pension and, if god wills it, pursue a musical career. Doesn't seem like such a bad deal. Someday I'll try to visit a real working mine to experience how awful it is and get a sense of whether it's really worth it or not.
There's a lot more interesting things to say about Pilar, but I doubt I'll ever get around to them.
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