A large weather system is on the Costa Rica Pacific coast which is giving us 2 days of rain and fog...day and night.
We rarely get weather systems down here. If we get one though, it sticks around forever! They don't move.
Strangely, I don't mind. It is cool and cosy. Perfect nap weather.
I took my car into the tire shop for 2 tire repairs.
One front tire had a slow, oh so slow, only fill the tire with air every 3 to 5 weeks, kind of slow leak.
Then I saw a big screw head sticking out of the other front tire. I didn't want to pull it out for fear of the tire going flat right there on the spot.
I went to my favorite tire shop owner by my neighbor Franklin. They spent an hour finding and fixing the first slow leak and discovering that the second tire didn't need anything because the screw went in at an angle and didn't create a leak.
This cost me $3.75.
Some stuff is so cheap here that it blows the mind!
I went back to the same shop for an oil change and fuel, oil and air filter change. I supplied the oil and they supplied the filters.
I learned how he makes his money.
His filter price was double what I could buy them for myself.
The next time, I'm buying them myself.
You have to live and learn down here.
It is still the Wild West in Panama.
2 comments:
oh yeah. I, too, am always surprised at how things are of such radically different values in other countries. once, on an island in Greece, I 'ala-carted' a magnificent meal, with fresh lamb shish-kabob, with a side of green beans, greek feta cheese salad, a big loaf of fresh leather-skinned bread, with sweet cream butter, and Baklava for desert, as well as 2 'cokes' to drink. whole thing was about $4.00 (US) which seemed a bit high for what I was used to paying. turned out the regular old 'green beans' were $2.10 of the bill, as they were a delicacy there on the island. Thanks for the posts... Darshan
Ah, the learning curve is high. But that is the adventure of it! What would I write about without it.
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