ive been living in sosua for 2 1/2 years strait and comming down now for what is my 10th year. so you could say i should know better... but this trip ive been here for 1 month now, and i cant tell you how many things and times ive gotten robbed....and just gotten ****ed off at dominicans in general....
started with my new bottle of cologne... the cleaning lady just up n took it.. i know it was her cuz it was there at 3;30 pm when i went to the pool and she cleaned my room right as i was leaving, i returned at 5pm and it was gone!! i gave her the benifit of asking if she broke it ( which i would understand. it happens) but no, she is off the next day and thinks she can get away with it....i later find out that the workers in the hotel havent been paid for three months... so i guess i should understand and move on.... oh well a brand new $60 dollars cologne gone!!
next its the taxi guys, these guys are like the mafia down here... ive had a few run ins with them.. so far so good, im undefeated when it comes to arguing with them as long as the police are involved, but these guys logic is unbelieveable!! they try n use strong-arm tactics....
started with me taking my friends to the airport with a rental truck that we paid for.... apparently they feel that anyone going to n from the airport has to paid them $25 dollars... u can imagine how watching me load up the truck n going to the airport turned out!!!
make a long story short and a big scene with police many taxi cab drivers n the local news.... i had my hearing in dominican court and won!!! i was allowed to take my friends but you know i didnt make any new taxi cab friends.....
but it didnt stop there... now i got a few friends that spent everything they had and were broke, so i suggest that instead of taking the taxi to the airport, they jump in a publico taxi off the main road.....the difference is, instead of $25 bucks plus tip, the publicos charge you 50 pesos and if you want the whole car to your self just buy out the entire car ( which means... if 6 people fit in the car just give him 300 pesos and you go by yourself or if your goin with another guy its 150 each or 100 for three... you get the picture... its much cheaper than a regular taxi....sure enough the taxi mafia gets wind of it and they send a threating message that im pushing it with them....lol, **** you! is my response... in english n in spannish... why should i pay more when i dont have too... i told em your conplaint is with the publicos not with me or any tourist who decides to save a buck!!
next story actually happened to my dominican girlfriend, who you think is excluded from the thieves n con-artists scams since she is one of them (meaning she's dominican n poor)
anyway, she happened to bring some clothes to the laundry ( family laundramat)( sign says" morecheaperthanyourownhouse) across from casa cayena hotel n near the bon ice cream shop.... these filty thieves have been cut off from me years ago whensuddenly my clothes started disapearing, not to mention the woman's son is a crack user that steals your nice shirts n sells them,or wears them out,
(i caught him wearing one of mine) which is why i never went back to them again, but for some reason my girlfriend decided to go drop off her clothes n some of mine without me knowing, whatever...about 15 minutes goes by and she remembers that she left some money in one of the pockets of the pants she dropped off... now, she is 1000% sure that it was in the pants and 10,000,000% sure the workers at the laundramat had already cleaned her out... it dosent matter the amount (enought to **** her off) but it was so obvious that they took it that it made her n me sick.... she swears never to use them again... and its not the money... from what i understand, from talking with her its the priciple, "how could you steal from me" im dominican just like you and i know you took the money" you could lie to gringo's, but to me?" im sure you could understand.. one thing ive learned all the time being down here is domincans stick together, if you get robbed by a dominican, they say to themselves " good for you, they(gringo's) got money so they wont miss it" but when dominicans rob from other dominicans..... its more like " shame on you" ive seen thieves get tied to a poll and wipped and beaten badly for just that!!
as im closing my trip report this time in sosua, im really questioning weather i want to come back, yes, there is so much good,food/women/culture down here, and ive had so much fun over the years with many friends...some new that i met here and old that come down here to party...honestly, all the bull**** politics, and police coruption added to the thieves n con-artists, drug- dealing motocouches adds up....its the good n the bad theory i know but sometimes enough is enough!!!
started with my new bottle of cologne... the cleaning lady just up n took it.. i know it was her cuz it was there at 3;30 pm when i went to the pool and she cleaned my room right as i was leaving, i returned at 5pm and it was gone!! i gave her the benifit of asking if she broke it ( which i would understand. it happens) but no, she is off the next day and thinks she can get away with it....i later find out that the workers in the hotel havent been paid for three months... so i guess i should understand and move on.... oh well a brand new $60 dollars cologne gone!!
next its the taxi guys, these guys are like the mafia down here... ive had a few run ins with them.. so far so good, im undefeated when it comes to arguing with them as long as the police are involved, but these guys logic is unbelieveable!! they try n use strong-arm tactics....
started with me taking my friends to the airport with a rental truck that we paid for.... apparently they feel that anyone going to n from the airport has to paid them $25 dollars... u can imagine how watching me load up the truck n going to the airport turned out!!!
make a long story short and a big scene with police many taxi cab drivers n the local news.... i had my hearing in dominican court and won!!! i was allowed to take my friends but you know i didnt make any new taxi cab friends.....
but it didnt stop there... now i got a few friends that spent everything they had and were broke, so i suggest that instead of taking the taxi to the airport, they jump in a publico taxi off the main road.....the difference is, instead of $25 bucks plus tip, the publicos charge you 50 pesos and if you want the whole car to your self just buy out the entire car ( which means... if 6 people fit in the car just give him 300 pesos and you go by yourself or if your goin with another guy its 150 each or 100 for three... you get the picture... its much cheaper than a regular taxi....sure enough the taxi mafia gets wind of it and they send a threating message that im pushing it with them....lol, **** you! is my response... in english n in spannish... why should i pay more when i dont have too... i told em your conplaint is with the publicos not with me or any tourist who decides to save a buck!!
next story actually happened to my dominican girlfriend, who you think is excluded from the thieves n con-artists scams since she is one of them (meaning she's dominican n poor)
anyway, she happened to bring some clothes to the laundry ( family laundramat)( sign says" morecheaperthanyourownhouse) across from casa cayena hotel n near the bon ice cream shop.... these filty thieves have been cut off from me years ago whensuddenly my clothes started disapearing, not to mention the woman's son is a crack user that steals your nice shirts n sells them,or wears them out,
(i caught him wearing one of mine) which is why i never went back to them again, but for some reason my girlfriend decided to go drop off her clothes n some of mine without me knowing, whatever...about 15 minutes goes by and she remembers that she left some money in one of the pockets of the pants she dropped off... now, she is 1000% sure that it was in the pants and 10,000,000% sure the workers at the laundramat had already cleaned her out... it dosent matter the amount (enought to **** her off) but it was so obvious that they took it that it made her n me sick.... she swears never to use them again... and its not the money... from what i understand, from talking with her its the priciple, "how could you steal from me" im dominican just like you and i know you took the money" you could lie to gringo's, but to me?" im sure you could understand.. one thing ive learned all the time being down here is domincans stick together, if you get robbed by a dominican, they say to themselves " good for you, they(gringo's) got money so they wont miss it" but when dominicans rob from other dominicans..... its more like " shame on you" ive seen thieves get tied to a poll and wipped and beaten badly for just that!!
as im closing my trip report this time in sosua, im really questioning weather i want to come back, yes, there is so much good,food/women/culture down here, and ive had so much fun over the years with many friends...some new that i met here and old that come down here to party...honestly, all the bull**** politics, and police coruption added to the thieves n con-artists, drug- dealing motocouches adds up....its the good n the bad theory i know but sometimes enough is enough!!!
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