rule #127, regarding living in the dr
For no reason, what so ever, do you leave your car outside, on the roadside. Always park in your garage/ closed off driveway.
Its not like back home, where you can curb-park and go off to work, or leave your car in front of your house at night.
When out and about :
- I try not leave my car out of sight. Like at the beach, restaurant, colmado.....
Or
- Go from buisness parkings to buisness parkings. Like ochoa, lasirena, DGM...... they have guards in the parkings or some sort of surveillance.
All this is only valid for a " normal" car. If you have a 20 year old bashed-up, rusty corolla, by all means park it anywhere
Small anecdote from way back, when I was new to the dr :
My wife had wrecked the side mirror protection thingy on the drivers side. A mirror vs mirror accident.
We stopped off on Duarte in santiago.
Apparently thats THE cheap place to go. But they only had cheap copies and not " originals ".
Anyway the guy didnt have the Hilux model we needed. But no fear !!!
He sends off a kid/teenager with a screwdriver and a couple of tools........
Tells us to go have a coffee next door, that it wont be long......
And 15 mn or so later, the kid comes back with the side mirror:ermm::ermm: freshly subtalised from an unexpected Hilux owner.....lol.
And I quote the curb-side pseudo-garage owner, that is why you do not leave your jeepeta roadside in the dr !!!!!!!