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**cwgwowcom** · 03-04-2006, 07:00 AM

Larry,

Those people are what I call "estafadores". Big time! That happened to me many times and I just tell them "if you don't have change well no tip". Especially taxi drivers and all of sudden they start digging in the deep holes in their pockets and the change comes. If a taxi fare from point A to point B costs 200 pesos and I give them 500 pesos I expect the change and if I feel like tipping that's my right but the minute that they try to pull a fast one I just tell them it's either you have change or you lower the fare! I don't care what the circumstance is. If one is in a business it's the establishment's responsibility to have change not the customer's. There's nothing foreign about this mentality. It's just the norm.

Once again I think it's "un juego mental y esperan poder ganar".

Whenever I am drinking in a bar in Sosua and I ask to pay my bill, they never have change. I don't understand this. I never attempt to pay with more than a 500 peso note. How can an establishment that is attempting to stay in buisness look back at the customer and say, " lo siento pero no tenemos cambio." ? Like this is a delimma I am supposed to solve. I just look back at them and say, " no hay problema, puedo esperar". Am I , as the customer, supposed to carry 10, 20 and 50 peso notes at all times for the convience of the bars I decide to drink in? I don't complain about much when I am down here but this is rediculous.
Larry

03-04-2006, 07:00 AM	#10
cwgwowcom Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 425 Senior Member	Larry, Those people are what I call "estafadores". Big time! That happened to me many times and I just tell them "if you don't have change well no tip". Especially taxi drivers and all of sudden they start digging in the deep holes in their pockets and the change comes. If a taxi fare from point A to point B costs 200 pesos and I give them 500 pesos I expect the change and if I feel like tipping that's my right but the minute that they try to pull a fast one I just tell them it's either you have change or you lower the fare! I don't care what the circumstance is. If one is in a business it's the establishment's responsibility to have change not the customer's. There's nothing foreign about this mentality. It's just the norm. Once again I think it's "un juego mental y esperan poder ganar". Whenever I am drinking in a bar in Sosua and I ask to pay my bill, they never have change. I don't understand this. I never attempt to pay with more than a 500 peso note. How can an establishment that is attempting to stay in buisness look back at the customer and say, " lo siento pero no tenemos cambio." ? Like this is a delimma I am supposed to solve. I just look back at them and say, " no hay problema, puedo esperar". Am I , as the customer, supposed to carry 10, 20 and 50 peso notes at all times for the convience of the bars I decide to drink in? I don't complain about much when I am down here but this is rediculous. Larry
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