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I have a buddy who has visited SJO about three times.
The last time he was smitten by a local working chica who he is fancinated by. He will spend his money and time with her next trip in a few days.

My friends and I know she is a pro at extracting money from love smitten gringos. He is a nice smart attractive middle age gringo who has been bitten.
I feel he is being taken for a ride.

Q: what do I do? Let him get hurt and spend his money?
Be quiet?
Introduce him to a new hot babe?
or what?

Astroglide, we need your advice. This is real.

Latino heat and PacoLoco and Showerhead and RaggedEdge and VB, and others ... help.

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William Walker
8 May 1824 - 12 Sep 1860
Fusilado

Tell him to snap out of it and tell him why (without using name calling or cursing since he will imidiately turn down the volume on whatever he has to say). Try introducing him to other mongers who have been there, open up a discussion about it at the local mongers hang out and you will see the storys come out.

If that doesnt work and he comes with the sob story of "oh but she really loves me and i feel a deep conection with her"

Just say "Whatever, Good Luck but if you get ripped off dont say i didnt warn ya"

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William Walker Says:

You should tell him as bluntly as possible the following:

1) She is a working girl. This is what she does for a living and when he is not there she is screwing every guy with a wallet.

2) Once she has become a working girl, she will never change. She will always be a working girl. The money is just too easy. He will never be able to afford the dough she can make. The Pretty Woman movie was just a movie. They won't quit. Maybe one in a thousand will, but that is probably not her.

3) Go ahead and spend time with her on this trip, but never ever pay her more than what you are getting for services rendered. Never get "upside down" with a working girl. You will never get right side up with them. He is nothing more than a walking talking ATM machine to her.


After you tell him this, he can do as he pleases, but at least your conscience is clear. Good Luck. Hopefully he will listen. If not, one day you will be telling him "I told you so."

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ASTROGLIDE

Ask him to call Tom Leykus on his radio show and seek advice.

Astroglide,
Good to see you back in the fold.

Wit

You know not to mention that you will always see her as a working girl, you met her as a working girl and for the rest of your life the orgin of your relationship was you paying for her to give you sex. Thats never going away. Most guys think they can handle that but it proves to be a burden that is harder than it looks.

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My question to William Walker is...will your friend listen to your advice?

If your friend will not listen to your advice then it would not matter what advices are given here. There are already a couple of threads running right now that basically give a person a pretty good idea of what the veterans are feeling about this subject, ie, Blitzdog and Paco loco threads.

I seemed to remembered a few of the avid posters and members of this board were given the same advice of not to fall for these working girls, don't send them money and don't buy anything they ask for while in CR and yet they did not want to listen and had to learn it the hard way. It really is unfortunate that "sound" advices are being ignored.

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Live today as it was your last day, for tomorrow may never come.

Simple solution:
Steal his passport - problem over.
Lee

Same thing happened to me on my first trip down. I recieved some very straightforward advice from many of the veteran members on this board. I was lucky that she never asked me for money, although I'm sure it was coming sooner or later.

On my 2nd trip down I found out what she was really all about. She had written me telling me she was all excited about my return trip. I found out why. After spending 2 TLN'S with me she told me she wouldn't be able to stay any longer without me paying her for the 2 nites. Definately a shock to me. I gave her less that she requested and a little cab fare and sent her on her way, I have not seen or heard from her since.

I am now convinced that LAL is the way to go and plan to do so on my return trip in May.

The veterans on this board KNOW what they are talking about. Heed their advice

Firebully
Find 'em hot....Leave 'em wet

Astro.......... he is back in the saddle again.

OK ........ Here is the deal. Your friend has a very serious disease which a lot of gringos get called PUSSYWHIPPEDITIS

The only cure I know is the following:


A. Tell your buddy to open up his wallet and start pouring out hundreds of dollars to this chica.

B. Once the pain of losing the money is sufficient enough, he might just have the balls to cut off the money supply.

C. Here is the cure...... Once he stops paying her, she won't want to see him any longer and will seek out another lonely, lovesick gringo to milk.

D. To fully cure him, go back to SJ and have him start banging new chicas. Maybe by then he will have learned his lessons and see these chicas for what they really are.

WB Astro.

Your wit and wisdom has been sorely missed.

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Alex Levine

I don't always agree with everything Astro says, but he is absolutely right on the money in everything he posted (good to have ya back Astro). And he is one who should know. I would like to modify the excerpt posted above and I think Astro will agree with this:

Once she has become a working girl, she actually WILL change. She will always be a working girl AND if she hasn't been ruined by the experience yet she soon will be and will get only worse and worse.

There was a lot of other good advice here, such as Coqui's corrollary that his attitude to her will always be colored by how they met, or sitting him down with a bunch of the guys (if he doesn't believe you maybe he'll believe others who've been there). The sad thing is that love is an addiction. Most can't be talked down but have to bottom out on their own. Hopefully, if that happens he won't get burned to bad before he wises up.

I wish we didn't see this happen too so many men but my experience is that 90% of the guys I know just don't listen to good advice & have to learn the hard way. Many guys I have seen even repeated this mistake twice but learned after the 2nd bad experience. Probably the best advice is get him to read this board after that he is on is own!

I have 2 friends going through this now & told them both they are crazy & it will never work they will not listen. Also told them about this board & they will make no effort to read it. They simply don’t want to hear anything negative.

I tell them you can meet many in normal settings which is far better I believe. Myself I wouldn't want even a semi pro to get serious with as they know way too much about men & the gulch & would never let you have any breathing space if something long term worked out.

Interesting to me when I was in my early 20's the Ticas always had their price for the night but never asked me to send money or leaned in that direction. Maybe I was lucky or they really have turned hustling gringos into an art now. As I am older now I have been hit up about sending money much more frequently especially if you repeat more than 3 times with one. I think they see a younger guy as not as likely to be as soft as the older guy or the older guys generally have the money & willing to give it up easier?

Zippy

With all the beautiful females in Costa Rica why are people becoming smitten with working girls???? Sure for the night, or a week, maybe ???? I spent a couple months in C.R. but I chased normal gals, in a far off spot. My chases ended with lots of sex, but when I tried to move beyond a fun time it got difficult. I wasn't paying $ 100, or $ 50 and I learned Sure, after a great time, I would bring gifts, never money, but that is only after a period of fun.

With the huge number of females in C.R. looking for a gringo, why go after a working girl ??? It won't work with a vast majority of regular girls, but with a working girl the odds are reduced to near ZERO.

Why do we hear this story so often?

We love the FANTASY! Why are little K*ds so smitten w/ Disney World? Same thing!

I say let him go for it. Let him live the lie. He'll have a blast thinking his dream has come true. Let him do it. It's fun! It's exciting! It's great sex!

What's he gonna lose? A couple hundred? What's he gonna gain?

Answer: A real world lesson and more memories and fun than he ever imagined. He wants a story to tell. Let him have a couple of memories, a few weeks of happiness and tons of retrospective laughs. Give him some credit. If he's smart enough to figure out CR is a great place to play then he's smart enough to figure out the rest of the scam.

C'mom fellers, let the dreamer have some fun. We've all done it. Most of us will do it again and again and again. I know I will.

I live for it! You get to love her, cheat on her, sneak around, fanatsize about other chics etc.

Admit it dudes, many of us are bigger drama queens than the drama queens, We get to star in our movies and Broadway plays and it doesn't cost shit!

Start worrying when he applies for th K1 fiance visa. Until then, let him have something to live for!

Rocco