I too agree...sad isnt it that these are no longer universally acceptable?
ONLY in DR (add yours to list)...
I too agree...sad isnt it that these are no longer universally acceptable?
In the DR you have little trucks circling around offering to buy anything old "compramos cosas viejas lo que sea" (we'll buy anything old whatever it is).
Sometimes I ask them "cuanto pa' una esposa vieja y amarga? (how much for an old bitter wife)" sometimes they laugh and sometimes they just drive on.
One came by this morning while I was walking my dogs just as I got back to my building. I didn't speak to him but I mentioned to our portero (day time watchman) that I had a fan that had stopped working and did he know someone who could fix it.
He said 'my grandson is upstairs fixing a refrigerator'. I brought my floor fan downstairs and went down the street to buy lunch from the comedor at the corner.
When I got back it was done. His grandson had cleaned it and oiled it and that was all it needed. I gave him a good propina and I was ecstatic. I had considered selling it to the "buy old stuff guys".
So there's an Only in the DR (maybe).
The portero is the father in law of the president of the residents association. The president is Italian. I call him Mussolini because he makes a lot of unilateral decisions. I'm the treasurer and the number of his unilateral decisions that pi$$ me off are so few that I don't oppose him since the building is, on balance, well run.
None of this is necessarily Only in the DR but it surely is nothing like where I came from.
Get my golf shoes cleaned and shined on the street like new for under a buck.
Buy the best tasting frosted beer I know of for under a buck and a 1/2.
See 50 plus old man overweight by 50 pounds walking down a street with a local more then 1/2 his age and he feels like he's Tom Cruise.
Have a flat tire on the highway and within minutes have a motor concho, 3 trucks and a publico offering to help.
Pay a local girl at a car wash 2 1/2 bucks for a whole night plus beer to teach me how to dance to bachata.
Asking a Dominican friend what is his dog's name, and he replys "thats not important"
Going into a restuarant and being given a mobile toilet seat before entering the bano.
Having it explained by a dominican female friend that she had 7 sisters all from her father, however 5 of them where raised in 5 different houses with different girlfriends and her mother never divorced him.
Seeing a motor concho strapping a casket to his back which I assumed was empty as he traveled down the road.
Seeing a Dominican mother walk over to a visiting topless gringa at the beach and pour a bucket of ice cold water over her. Then she returns and next to her is her daughter which is 16 or so wearing what looked like a thong!
Getting asked one day in the line at the Bank to remove my golf hat from the security man. In the same line is a local with a machete in his hand, and in front of him is another local with a pistol in his side.
Buy the best tasting frosted beer I know of for under a buck and a 1/2.
See 50 plus old man overweight by 50 pounds walking down a street with a local more then 1/2 his age and he feels like he's Tom Cruise.
Have a flat tire on the highway and within minutes have a motor concho, 3 trucks and a publico offering to help.
Pay a local girl at a car wash 2 1/2 bucks for a whole night plus beer to teach me how to dance to bachata.
Asking a Dominican friend what is his dog's name, and he replys "thats not important"
Going into a restuarant and being given a mobile toilet seat before entering the bano.
Having it explained by a dominican female friend that she had 7 sisters all from her father, however 5 of them where raised in 5 different houses with different girlfriends and her mother never divorced him.
Seeing a motor concho strapping a casket to his back which I assumed was empty as he traveled down the road.
Seeing a Dominican mother walk over to a visiting topless gringa at the beach and pour a bucket of ice cold water over her. Then she returns and next to her is her daughter which is 16 or so wearing what looked like a thong!
Getting asked one day in the line at the Bank to remove my golf hat from the security man. In the same line is a local with a machete in his hand, and in front of him is another local with a pistol in his side.
I've tried saying "cook out" and "cocinado" right after each other but they don't sound a whole lot alike to me. At any rate I thought "cocinado" was self explanatory. BTW, everybody here says barbeque - maybe they are doing it for my benefit.
It's "cocina'o" (not cocinado) and it sounds pretty similar.
Alway try to get my Dominican Yoga students to say Namaste at the end. However, it always sounds like "No Mistake" to me. Now I know what my spanish must sound like to them being a gringo.
"El arrasa con to"
Comprando colchones viejos,el box sping,la base se abajo,baterias viejas,radiadores viejos,neveras,lavadoras estufas, pailas viejas.
Todo lo que sea de aluminio se lo compramos..
Le limpiamos el patio y le pagamos por ello...
Llego "el arrasa con to" comprando todo lo que sea viejo...
Menos mujeres viejas.
haha
JJ
It still doesn't sound the same as the issue is not the missing "d" in cocinao. It's the pronunciation of the "o". The "o" in cocinao is the same "o" as in "coke", not "cook". The two o's in "cook" sound the same as in look, book and took but different that root, boot. The English double "o" sound is very different from the Spanish one and almost a cross between a "u" and an "o" sound in the first examples. In the latter examples it is really a "u" sound.
Hahahaha.
Chiiiicharrrooonneeeeeee.......
Do?a La Floreeeeee.........
Maneeeeeeeee (Man?)
And many developing countries if may add.
Again, this is a DR related site so...
...so we should rename the thread "NOT Only in the DR..."
Pay for full coverages on rental car
and flat tire repairs are not covered and BTW even though the spare was full of air it would not fit the car or and even though it was quite late the guy who fixes your tire offers to share his dinner (that he stopped eating in order to help you) did I mention I was prepared to get "reamed" when it came to paying he did not charge "gringo prices"
you can "tip" a policeman with a sandwich or fresh fruit
you can mix up "moro" and "mero" when ordering lunch and still have a great meal
get the best shave of your life on the beach (Sosua 1998)
get invited to dinner with family (in their home) as part of the bargaining process with a vendor at the market in POP (then have mom's brother get jealous and insist we return next day for "his turn" true story)
have the taxi driver hold luggage hostage until he was paid full fair even though van had a flat tire on the way to the airport well after dark and was unable to get the spare down/installed
visit a country more than 35 times and still "long" for your next chance to visit (July 10 2010 my birthday BTW)
you can respond "money? parque money? no money por nada" when stopped while driving by armed military guys (automatic weapon in hand) and it is acceptable
you can get a water pump/timing belt repaired on a Toyota Camry while you go for lunch and it costs less than lunch would at home
all beaches are public but you may meet an armed guard that has no been so informed
you can go to a bar that is actually inside a jail and drink/dance right along with inmates and guards
I may be able to think of more. I assure you all of these items are from personal expirience over the years.
ggparts
and flat tire repairs are not covered and BTW even though the spare was full of air it would not fit the car or and even though it was quite late the guy who fixes your tire offers to share his dinner (that he stopped eating in order to help you) did I mention I was prepared to get "reamed" when it came to paying he did not charge "gringo prices"
you can "tip" a policeman with a sandwich or fresh fruit
you can mix up "moro" and "mero" when ordering lunch and still have a great meal
get the best shave of your life on the beach (Sosua 1998)
get invited to dinner with family (in their home) as part of the bargaining process with a vendor at the market in POP (then have mom's brother get jealous and insist we return next day for "his turn" true story)
have the taxi driver hold luggage hostage until he was paid full fair even though van had a flat tire on the way to the airport well after dark and was unable to get the spare down/installed
visit a country more than 35 times and still "long" for your next chance to visit (July 10 2010 my birthday BTW)
you can respond "money? parque money? no money por nada" when stopped while driving by armed military guys (automatic weapon in hand) and it is acceptable
you can get a water pump/timing belt repaired on a Toyota Camry while you go for lunch and it costs less than lunch would at home
all beaches are public but you may meet an armed guard that has no been so informed
you can go to a bar that is actually inside a jail and drink/dance right along with inmates and guards
I may be able to think of more. I assure you all of these items are from personal expirience over the years.
ggparts
In El Seibo Christmas time 2009
After a big dinner and some visiting we walked over to the jail (I'm with local residents obviously) and we just went through the gate and there was the typical too loud music and people enjoying themselves the same as if they were not in jail. My friend did not find it anything out of the ordinary except that he wanted me to have the experience.
After a big dinner and some visiting we walked over to the jail (I'm with local residents obviously) and we just went through the gate and there was the typical too loud music and people enjoying themselves the same as if they were not in jail. My friend did not find it anything out of the ordinary except that he wanted me to have the experience.