It doesn't really happen that often.
I don't frequent tourist areas very much, I can emote / speak my way out most problems - albeit just small ones.
But every once in a while I get "Gringo'd"..... it must be my whiteness.
Case #1
SDQ can be hot. I got thirsty and asked for a Grande at a colmado...
I gave the muchacho 100pesos.... he sort of went on with his business after giving me the beer.
I tapped the counter with my bottle and lo and behold, I got 20pesos change.
Now. I'm more used to 60-70peso beers but this was SDQ........... no problema.
Case #2
Cabarete, the root of all scams/evil/gringoing........
Thirsty again, I stop at a colmado/bar/who knows what.
The girl has the requisite cleavage for a Dominicana bartendress and of course, I can't control my eyeballs - they have a mind of their own.
She smiles - I look up the name of a good divorce lawyer - and then she dips down into the cooler.
You could have knocked my eyeballs off with a stick!!!
I give her the same - 100pesos. NO CHANGE!!!
I ask for "mi cambio"....... none coming.....she tells me thats the price.
NEVER, NUNCA, have I been charged 100pesos for grande cerveza outside of a gyp joint.
Needless to say, I did not divorce my wife for her ---- had she given me 50Pesos change.....I can't say.
Life in the fastlane........... well. not so fast really...... just life in RD
I don't frequent tourist areas very much, I can emote / speak my way out most problems - albeit just small ones.
But every once in a while I get "Gringo'd"..... it must be my whiteness.
Case #1
SDQ can be hot. I got thirsty and asked for a Grande at a colmado...
I gave the muchacho 100pesos.... he sort of went on with his business after giving me the beer.
I tapped the counter with my bottle and lo and behold, I got 20pesos change.
Now. I'm more used to 60-70peso beers but this was SDQ........... no problema.
Case #2
Cabarete, the root of all scams/evil/gringoing........
Thirsty again, I stop at a colmado/bar/who knows what.
The girl has the requisite cleavage for a Dominicana bartendress and of course, I can't control my eyeballs - they have a mind of their own.
She smiles - I look up the name of a good divorce lawyer - and then she dips down into the cooler.
You could have knocked my eyeballs off with a stick!!!
I give her the same - 100pesos. NO CHANGE!!!
I ask for "mi cambio"....... none coming.....she tells me thats the price.
NEVER, NUNCA, have I been charged 100pesos for grande cerveza outside of a gyp joint.
Needless to say, I did not divorce my wife for her ---- had she given me 50Pesos change.....I can't say.
Life in the fastlane........... well. not so fast really...... just life in RD