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Background: English woman married to Dominican man with 2 teenage stepsons living in DR for 8 years.
(A) Marry one from the UK
Monday: Shopping. Main supermarket has no chicken. Another week of mince (hamburger meat) and pork and goat. Arrive home to find large truck has torn down phone cable in street. No telephone in house and no internet. Phone Claro. Will be fixed in one working day. Great Service!!!
Plenty of these in the UK
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Was that pork And goat And goat And (hamburger meat) And chicken And
termites And o i forgot was it mince you said AND the mince has just drove buy And they do not look very happy PIGGY'S
(A) Get tin chicken soup and the mince use dog food
(A) cable in street get a taller post
More on mince here
Mince
Water not working. There is a hole rusted through in tank which fills up from the well. Get new tank. 3500RD$ including labour. Water by 7pm
(A) Get bottled water
Comma not working on computer as termites keep dropping poo and sawdust from roof onto computer when typing.
Lucky it was not these
(A) Get umbrella or Fix roof
Tuesday: Front burner on stove top not working. Rusted through. Dismantle stove top to buy new burner next week. Scrape off all oil from inside stove top due to Dominicans cooking rice and beans at lunchtimes.
(A)Scrape off all oil from inside stove Do the cooking yourself
Fridge stopped working as run out of gas.(Why do fridges never run out of gas in uk???). Call fridge repair man. Will come same day.
(A) (Why do fridges never run out of gas in uk as 99% of them are electric
Call Claro as have still not turned up. No record of call yesterday. The repair reference number they gave me does not exist. New number. Will be fixed in 2 working days.
(A) I will let you now in 2 working days. Sat Sun not included
Wednesday: Fridge still not fixed. Get stung by angry wasp.
Visit suicidal expat whose dominican husband has rung off with younger and thinner woman.
Is this her
(A) Tell suicidal expat to find younger and thinner man
Cat missing. Presumed barbecued by local Haitians.
(A) http://www.dr1.com/forums/716536-post2.html
Unable to clean termite poo out of computer as sealed unit.Order new keyboard from Dell.
(A) Could have bought one of these Winnie the Pooh Dust Cover 19" LCD computer PC Keyboard on eBay, also Case Accessories Parts Kits, Desktop PC Cases, Desktop PC Components, Computing (end time 25-Jan-09 21:46:18 GMT) only a fiver
Thursday: Fridge fixed. Still no internet nor phone.Call Claro. Will be fixed in 5 working days. Scream at Claro. Feel better. Cat still missing but faint smell of burnt fur in the air. Have meeting with bank at 4pm. They don't turn up.
(A) Cat still missing ?Did you eat the cat .
No it was him
Free at last
Friday: Scream at Claro again. They turn up at 5pm hooray. Internet and phone fixed.
(A) You could have gone to the internet cafe and used MSN
Discover money disappeared from bank account and only I know PIN.Bank refuse to refund.
(A) Probably bought something on line, internet fraud
Rescheduled bank meeting does not happen again.
(A) Close bank account use cash only
Hooray!!! It's the weekend!!!
(A) Working days do not cover weekends
Matilda
Background: English woman married to Dominican man with 2 teenage stepsons living in DR for 8 years.
(A) Marry one from the UK
Monday: Shopping. Main supermarket has no chicken. Another week of mince (hamburger meat) and pork and goat. Arrive home to find large truck has torn down phone cable in street. No telephone in house and no internet. Phone Claro. Will be fixed in one working day. Great Service!!!
Plenty of these in the UK
Was that pork And goat And goat And (hamburger meat) And chicken And
termites And o i forgot was it mince you said AND the mince has just drove buy And they do not look very happy PIGGY'S
(A) Get tin chicken soup and the mince use dog food
(A) cable in street get a taller post
More on mince here
Mince
horse ****e and coconut husk with a side order of chicken droppings
Water not working. There is a hole rusted through in tank which fills up from the well. Get new tank. 3500RD$ including labour. Water by 7pm
(A) Get bottled water
Comma not working on computer as termites keep dropping poo and sawdust from roof onto computer when typing.
Lucky it was not these
(A) Get umbrella or Fix roof
Tuesday: Front burner on stove top not working. Rusted through. Dismantle stove top to buy new burner next week. Scrape off all oil from inside stove top due to Dominicans cooking rice and beans at lunchtimes.
(A)Scrape off all oil from inside stove Do the cooking yourself
Fridge stopped working as run out of gas.(Why do fridges never run out of gas in uk???). Call fridge repair man. Will come same day.
(A) (Why do fridges never run out of gas in uk as 99% of them are electric
Call Claro as have still not turned up. No record of call yesterday. The repair reference number they gave me does not exist. New number. Will be fixed in 2 working days.
(A) I will let you now in 2 working days. Sat Sun not included
Wednesday: Fridge still not fixed. Get stung by angry wasp.
Visit suicidal expat whose dominican husband has rung off with younger and thinner woman.
Is this her
(A) Tell suicidal expat to find younger and thinner man
Cat missing. Presumed barbecued by local Haitians.
(A) http://www.dr1.com/forums/716536-post2.html
Unable to clean termite poo out of computer as sealed unit.Order new keyboard from Dell.
(A) Could have bought one of these Winnie the Pooh Dust Cover 19" LCD computer PC Keyboard on eBay, also Case Accessories Parts Kits, Desktop PC Cases, Desktop PC Components, Computing (end time 25-Jan-09 21:46:18 GMT) only a fiver
Thursday: Fridge fixed. Still no internet nor phone.Call Claro. Will be fixed in 5 working days. Scream at Claro. Feel better. Cat still missing but faint smell of burnt fur in the air. Have meeting with bank at 4pm. They don't turn up.
(A) Cat still missing ?Did you eat the cat .
Friday: Scream at Claro again. They turn up at 5pm hooray. Internet and phone fixed.
(A) You could have gone to the internet cafe and used MSN
Discover money disappeared from bank account and only I know PIN.Bank refuse to refund.
(A) Probably bought something on line, internet fraud
Rescheduled bank meeting does not happen again.
(A) Close bank account use cash only
Hooray!!! It's the weekend!!!
(A) Working days do not cover weekends
Matilda