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By Pat Beall
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

"Printing menus is expensive," Therien points out. The thousands of dollars it takes to draw up new menus means "you can't print menus every time a food item goes up. Your prices can't go up and down like a gas station."

Come on, brothers. I arrive the day after Thanksgiving and this will be my first trip exusively devoted to mongering. My previous trips were spent with my Novia and her 3 K*ds. We ate out in Moravia a lot so I need some help with SJO. There are a hell of a lot of good and inexpensive resteraunts out there. Part of vacation is dining out. Hell, I don't eat at Mac's when I'm at home.

If it was a "long" hair, I doubt it was from a dog unless someone in the kitchen has an Afghan or Wolfhound. Otherwise it was from a kitchen employee or a celebrity rat.

Goetz

Most of security at dr are ticos.They dont seem to mind seeing you phucking the ticas nearly as much as your "feeding them",especialthe head moron "fat estupido".Seeing a gringo ordering food for the girls that costs morethan theyll make for many days of work sendsthem into a typical costa rican non confrontational Phuck the gringo and girls(who taunt them and joke about their inability to afford the "pu*sy")convoluted passive aggresive frenzy of tiny minded seeking revenge mode,which often ends up with you being shorted food.Always collect the selections from your guests bsfore asking for someone to take your order.Make the order yourself and inspect it upon arrival before it is served. If it is more of joke (poor quality and portion)than usual ,send it back.Once it is served to the girl its her order and if she complains and you can see its obviously worse than usual they will say she ordered it even though youre paying.The girls wont want you to send it back because they can bebanned for periods of time for causing a problem.Even for something this minor.In this way youre stuck with "costipated duck syndrome".This is the tico way of confrontation,developed over more than a few centuries of hand to mouth subservience.I know lots of wonderful costa ricans,but youll meet very few on a casual tourista basis.When they drink or escape mommy for the night watch out.It wasnt a whole lot of years ago that the concept of a "pet dog"wasthe equivalent of rocket science because of the severity of life here.Well i know this is a lot of "bs"(enter the "traveler"pointy head and all)but maybe manglement will get wind and correct this thing.To avoid this ridiculousness just send a girl to the little plaza cafeteria style place down the street to bring back someting for everyone.They really dont care for our kind of food that much.Many of them would rather have a bar of soap than turkey sandguiche or especially the dreaded peanut butter.