A Mexican entrepreneur took a picture of our group as we unloaded the tour bus after we arrived at Chichen, Itza. On our way home, she tried to sell us a mickey of tequila with our picture scotched tapped over the label. $16 USD. We didn’t buy one…maybe web 2.0 it up, somehow. But get this, they didn’t have a bottle of water to sell us, on a day when it was 100*F out.
Tips are going to keep Mexicans uneducated. I’m suffering from an anchoring heuristic, I’m sure, but if tourists keep subsidizing the wages of mexicans working in the tourism industry, then they have little to no incentive to go out and get educated.
I bought an $80 Chess set, reduced for me to $60, then negotiated down to $30. You know what’s the difference between a pond and a bishop in my Mexican chess set? Nothing.
It sucks to have been one of the ~16M Mayans during the 50 years that the Spanish invaded…15.8M died, the rest probably wished they did. But before that, they did really amazing things manipulating gravity, acoustics, and most impressive – the solar angles.
Don’t dive from sketchy dive shacks. If they don’t clean the tanks properly – bacteria will get in your lungs and kill you vacation.
If I ever have a pet jellyfish, I’m going to name it ‘9V’, because that’s what kind of battery a jellyfish feel like when they sting you.
So, I’m guessing by the sound of your vacation to Mexico, you were stung by a jelly fish, deprived of actual water and a rather good negotiator? Props to you on the last one. I can never seem to get it down without feeling guilty.
Last time I tried to negotiate I wound up paying exactly what was asked. This is the place I admit my fault and swear to never barter on my own.
you’re guesses are correct. true true and true.
I treat negotiating like a sport, I bought a big mexican blanket…I think…I THINK i bought it only cause I won, and the guy was fun to negotiate with.
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