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You CAN't Beat Them!!!!
welcome to Paradise Isle.
hahahahahaha.
that's the best posting i read on here since a long time.
and it is one of the few real truthful out of the middle of Island Life blended in postings, lol.
nothing to add, it is exactly and always as you described.
wtf,
i found the ONLY solution years ago and will stick to it til my last breath:
I/ME/MYSELF/ALONE do the shopping.
i open the fridge, i open the meat freezer, i check on milk(me and babydaughter drink almost 2 liters a day, so it's important), i take a look on pastas and coffee and BBQ sauce etc etc etc, and buy what looks like running out the next several days.
i do that around twice a week, it's the only way to be assured that there will be coffee powder in da darn kittchen, when i want to brew a cup for myself, lol.
5 Gallon Buckets?
yeah, you told exactly the facts story.
we have 8 of 'em in the house.
right now, at this moment, i sit in my lil office(it is right in the house where we live of course), and on top of the office Closet i count 6 empty 5 gallon bottles.(we have 8 total in da house)
no, i will not lift up my ole arse to check the kittchen, but wanna bet that the 2 missing ones are NOT in the kittchen with at least a lil bit water in each of 'em??
the 5 gallon bottles are what i completely refuse to do shopping for(they are sold at my daughter's Godfathers Fish Market Place at the entrance to the property, just a 200 meters from the door here), because I do NOT drink any water. its used by the Mrs for drinking and cooking etc etc, I don't need it, so it does NOT ruin my evening in case she steps over here in an hour or so to tell me
" mi amor, no hay agua"
and she anyways knows my answer(which will not stop her from telling me there's no water, of course):
"Bebe, me importa un carajo, y por tu y tus amigitas lo sepan, la otra botella de Vino en la cocina es MIO!!!!"
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you described nicely the facts.
by any coincedence, does your wifey have a tall 40 years old Twin Sister from Santiago??
it sounds much too darn similar to be just a coincedence,
it must be the same bloodline we both slipped into.
Mike
Gas.
GAS!!!!
you mean G A S !!!!! like PROPANE GAS for da fukcing Stove and oven?
well,
Gas really get's me running.
Gas is a story which, i think, does only exist in DR!!!!
we have a big 12 1/2 Gallons Propane tank in the kittchen.
AND!!!! i have a darn BBQ running on Gas, with a small 5 Gallons tank connected, simply because that way there is ALWAYS spare GAS in da house, 24/7, even at hours when the Propane station 10 miles up da road is closed.
Nooo,
of course it doesn't work.
sometimes i don't use the BBQ for a week or even 2.
and OF COURSE every Once in a While da Mrs tell's me
"mi amor, no hay Gas".
Bebe, no hay problema, te lo conecta ahora mismo".
and the stu ole Burrito, I am, walks out on the Veranda to get the small 2.5 gallons tank from the BBQ, to connect it in the kittchen to the stove.
oooh, you already imagined??? how comes?
of course i walk out on the veranda, just to find out that it IS the lil tank which is EMPTY, because the BIG one been empty last weekend already.
Man,
what do i need patience to stay nice and not pull a darn 45 to shoot ... (da Tank).
GAS!!!
don't get me running on Gas, i may find more "daily life" thingies to get running, lol.
Gas my Azz,
there is no solution,
it's simply part of sweet Island Life.
life is good,
and my wine and Rum stay cool on electricity,
luckily electricity is very reliable here on da East.
Mike
I know people who do not fill the tank when refilling. They drag a large tank over to the station and put in 200 pesos.
this is hard to beat. i am still scratching my head.
i just saw a guy double park a motorcycle and go into his buddy?s apartment. there was only about 30 yards of space he could park properly, but guys here park in front of the place they are going.
well, if the guy he double parked beside drives away, the bike will be smack dab in the middle of the road.
you can?t beat that!
SOOOOOOO... I suppose there's no last minute rush to clean the stores out of milk, bread, cereal, eggs, toilet paper, and coffee, in the hours leading up to a big storm, like in the U.S. supermarkets that get their shelves stripped bare at the first hint of a snow storm up north?????
I used to fill the other propane tank up when it ran out now i just wait till they both run out, same with the Agua!!
I decided to join them ;-)
I decided to join them ;-)
easy answer:
China, of course.
americans would not get a simple Ford Jeepeta running without any parts made in china, lolol!!!
DR and a cold winter, just One COLD winter of 4-5 months freezing da heck out of it.
well,
i really could get used to that idea,
it would mean that after the first winter, Punta Cana would be again the beautiful nice Empty Campo on da Oceanfront, as it was when i arrived here.
no filled streets, no sukcing traffic Motoco?os so few that you know each by name, .....
is there any reliable forecast When we will get such clean up winter?
i know what i will dream about tonight:
one of my boats, and instead of the usual mount for a Dingy out there in front to be watered by the mounted Grua, that boaty will have a mount for a darn Snowmobile for a few months per year.
hey, that dream will last for some nights,
til it's christmas and still no snow, but even more motoco?os running around ...
sweet dreams
Mike
that means you perfectly blended in.
it has it's advantages,
it adds to lifetime,
less stress for the mind,
relaxed Island Life.
BUT da fukcing GAS gets me running nuts!!!!!!!
Mike
we do shopping every saturday. a highlight of my week, really. so nothing really runs out. and i am embarassed to say that miesposo fills up a tank as soon as it is empty (we have two). like mike, i don't drink water so i could not care less about it but miesposo buys botellones religiously. it's not like he is a DDD or anything. he must be doing it to get away from me as often as possible.
i don't hoard the food excessively but i am greedy and lazy. as a result i may buy literally entire supply of something i rarely see (say, bread flour) and i top it up with cheap, easy storage goodies like canned garbanzos. i think we could eat for at least a month from a pantry. in case of an earthquake i plan to off the neighbours and use them as an emergency food supply. granted, they all seem to be a bit leathery but no marinade needed, they soak up liquor on daily basis.
id come back to santiago and all the youngs relatives were there....lounging around...t.v. comp....out of gas....of course they had me wire money for the water...else they would be gone..i asked where is the monthly money i sent???rent. water, lights, phone....food etc....well she say....that money was used for something else? what? no answer.....just used.... of course not for gas....
WOW, that right there tells you everything you need to know about Dominican planning..
lmao.. they treat their only source of making heat for Cooking food, Like a Pesola..
Guess I am blessed
2 of those huge gas tanks..... never, ever, ran out of gas....
Guess the dr rubbed off on me.... I drag the tank there ( well not literally, of course, in the pick up )...... and put 1000 pesos in
But 1000 pesos goes a long way with only the 2 of us and 4 dogs.
Water...... i ran out recently...... my wife is in europe
When she is here, the fridge has 10 water containers, ALWAYS full, and there is never more than 1 empty gallon out of the 3.
The pantry....... wow !! Tins, pasta, rice, oil, coffee, sugar, salt, spices..... we could survive a nuclear winter ( or more likely a Zombie Apocalypse )
Candles, matches, first aid kits, ammo, lots of ammo ( ), knifes ( swiss army style ), mini water pumps, dynamo lamps..... u name it, we stock it !!
Man ! We used to have a barrel of diesel fuel and one of petrol in an outhouse !!
We go shopping, SHE makes a list !! Thats my mum's influence
I am getting more dominican by the day...... thankfully,
Nearly 20 years of swiss mentality ( it used to be law to have a bunker, 2 months worth of food and a bike thingy dynamo for electricity under ones house ) rubs off, even on a dominicana !!
2 of those huge gas tanks..... never, ever, ran out of gas....
Guess the dr rubbed off on me.... I drag the tank there ( well not literally, of course, in the pick up
)...... and put 1000 pesos in But 1000 pesos goes a long way with only the 2 of us and 4 dogs.
Water...... i ran out recently...... my wife is in europe
When she is here, the fridge has 10 water containers, ALWAYS full, and there is never more than 1 empty gallon out of the 3.
The pantry....... wow !! Tins, pasta, rice, oil, coffee, sugar, salt, spices..... we could survive a nuclear winter ( or more likely a Zombie Apocalypse )
Candles, matches, first aid kits, ammo, lots of ammo (
), knifes ( swiss army style ), mini water pumps, dynamo lamps..... u name it, we stock it !!Man ! We used to have a barrel of diesel fuel and one of petrol in an outhouse !!
We go shopping, SHE makes a list !! Thats my mum's influence
I am getting more dominican by the day...... thankfully,
Nearly 20 years of swiss mentality ( it used to be law to have a bunker, 2 months worth of food and a bike thingy dynamo for electricity under ones house ) rubs off, even on a dominicana !!
THEY are ALL ALIKE HERE!
As I continue to stare at the "MT" gas tank by the front door!!!!
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We should have a contest to see who has the most tin cans, hacked open by your "Best Knife", sitting in your refrigerator????????
ps,....I stopped buying any "Best Knives" 15 years ago!!!!