Sunday, August 7, 2011

Gringa Price

That's the price I pay as someone from the United States in Costa Rica on a daily basis. The man in the red van drives around with his microphone and says: "Huevos! Frescos! Huevos! $1,800 colones" Then he comes to me and I give him $2,000 colones exptecting 200 back in change but he said I owed 200 colones more...making the total price $2,200 for only me. I told him (in Spanish), "Hey I speak Spanish and I'm not a tourist. I heard you say the 30 eggs cost $1,800 colones...his response: "Pero ellos son mas grandes!"...yeah so I had to pay more because he was selling me the "most large" eggs.