One of those families was my customer. Working around these guys was like being with the mob. Everyone treated them with reverence almost.
They owned the largest ferreteria in the country. Made Sam's Club look like a corner drugstore in comparison. In the middle of the main selling floor the old man (grandfather) sat at a desk on a dais. All the salespeople had these receipt books where they wrote up your order, even if it was something in plain sight on the shelf. When they finished, they ran over to the dais and presented their book to the old man. He would take the big Dominican (and occasionally Cuban) cigar out of his mouth, look down and initial the receipt. Then, and only then could you check out and pay for your things. Only place I ever got the trots, too. Dummy me - I was at the customer's house one day and had a Coke with ice in it. Got dysentery from the ice. Hell of a weight loss program - I lost 15 pounds over the next week or two, and was lucky to get the company doctor to treat me. He kept telling me that the cure was as bad as the disease. Not so. Dan when I fart it echoes Sent from my iPad > On Feb 11, 2014, at 12:30 PM, Rich Thomas > <richthomas79td...@constructivity.net> wrote: > > I didn't find Belize to be that bad, considering. Well, Belize City is a SH > that one should not go to but the countryside was fairly nice and the people > seemed to be getting by fairly well. And the brewery is right next to the > airport so you can load up on the way away. > > DR is run by 7 (?) families going back to colonial times, everyone else is > superfluous. And if you are black, having escaped the other end of the > island, you are worse than superfluous. Notice on the roads the houses built > right up against them in what would be the right-of-way here -- that land is > "public" so people build their houses there. Trucks rolling through these > little villages at 70mph, the drivers would speed up to be macho. Little > kids playing in the roads, right up against it.... I did manage to get a > nice tropical trots disease in the DR, and got reported to the Board of > Health when I got home and sorted out. > > --R > >> On 2/11/14 11:49 AM, Curt Raymond wrote: >> You obviously haven't been to Belize yet... >> >> -Curt >> >> Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 11:43:18 -0500 >> From: Dan Penoff <d...@penoff.com> >> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> >> Subject: Re: [MBZ] Hotlanta? >> Message-ID: <449b5d10-b122-4cd8-a4c8-e4e765acc...@penoff.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >> >> Oh, and be ready to observe abject poverty like you've never seen it before. >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
