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How do you handle the issue of leftover CR currency at the end of your trips
I put anything I have left over in the donation boxes that they have at very places around the departure area 3%  3%  [ 2 ]
I use whatever I have left to pay my departure tax (paying any balance in US currency) 8%  8%  [ 5 ]
I use whatever I have left to buy snacks/beverages from the departure area food court 8%  8%  [ 5 ]
I save whatever I have left for my next trip 76%  76%  [ 50 ]
Now that they won't let you bring coffee through the security checkpoints, I'll use it to buy my coffee from the shops in the departure area 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Other (please post telling us what it is) 6%  6%  [ 4 ]
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 1:14 pm 
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I do have one ritual though, I keep a 1000 note on my dresser, and I look at it every day until I go to CR again. I dont know why, its just a motivating factor to go back.


I too look at that 1000 note everyday, reminding me of the great times that await me during my next trip. It motivates me to work hard and do all of the things that I do, so I can go on my next trip and sample some more of the good life.

Coins go to maids and paper currency goes home with me for next trip.


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I've had a 10,000 colone note in my wallet for several years. Every time I open my wallet, it brings a smile to my face! Plus, I have run across many "travel challenged" people who can't believe that any country would have a 10,000 note! :shock:

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Last Sept I gave the old lady in front 500 col coin. Next thing I know, $500 AA voucher and another night in SJ. I look for her every time.

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I use up all leftover paper colones (always just a small amount) at the airport. Coins I keep, and are already in an itty-bitty snap-lid container that I carry in my backpack, but any that I accumulate at the airport post-security I put in one of the donation boxes. The coins are useful for bus fare, small purchases at Mus Manni, filling out tips for maids, etc..


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I do put my change and small bills in the box for the drug addictts not the green type boxes. The big bills are for the next trip. And I keep my ICE phone cards for the next trip also.

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I used some of my colones for food and drink at the airport and the rest for incentive to return (as if i need it 8) ). For my next trip I will use it to pay for the taxi ride to the hotel and walking around money until I can exchange my dollars.


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As I explained to a girl last night -- I am buying you drinks because I want to get laid. If you don't go home with me, then I will leave you with your tab AND my tab (I drink heavily).


And yes, she slept with me because she couldn't afford the $300 bar tab. Sweet victory!

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How the hell do you rack up a 300$ tab and still have the ability to throw a sentence that makes any sense together!? :shock:

But hey, your tactic has a unique thrill to it. Unconventional approach, but if it works for you, go with it.


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Well, you see, my man Brother Srilm only favors those upscale joints, buying such as this for himself and the favored lass:
www.cristalchampagne.com
No cheap swill for this Brother--no no.

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JazzboCR wrote:
... This doesn't answer the question though as coins aren't currency.
JB, why don't you bust my balls? :roll:

While it is true that the term "currency" is sometimes used by some people to refer just to banknotes, the actual definition of currency is "anything that is used as a medium of exchange", and that would include paper AND metal currency. In ancient times that even meant items like beads and shells. As recently as 500 years ago chocolate was even used as a form of currency in MesoAmerica (presumably extending down to CR). In fact, according to one website that I found, in 1625 "Cocoa Beans are Currency in Spain too: 200 small cocoa beans were valued at 1 Spanish real, or 4 cents.". That may all be fairly interesting (to me at least), but more to my point, regardless of exactly what words I chose, I think it should have been clear enough that I was talking about the dribs and drabs, LEFTOVER CR money, ie both coins and smaller bills.


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... And once again, I only use this tactic on the losers who scam me for free drinks and leave me hanging at the end of the evening. The ladies who go home with me always get their drinks for free.

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You're such a humanitarian. :roll: They get a few "free" drinks and the "privilege" of going home with a shitfaced drunk and you get to Phuck them. Are we supposed to admire you for this? :?

To think you can just assume that just buying them a few drinks while they watch you get shitfaced, buys you anything beyond the right to a sort of "audition" or "interview" for the main event, IMHO and probably most modern gentlemen, is outmoded misogynistic thinking. I suppose you also believe that as long as you bought them those few drinks that also entitles you to keep going after you've torn off their clothes and they start screaming "NO!!!" too.

OTOH, if you REALLY DID explain to that girl last night AHEAD of time that your buying her a few drinks meant that she'd have to sleep with you or else pay for a mostly your $300 bar bill and she AGREED to that, then it might be another matter. She'd have had to be completely CRAZY to agree to those terms, but at least you'd have been more justified in sticking her with the bar tab if she balked when it came time to live up to her end of the deal. Did she go with you afterwards because she was probably going to do that anyway or was it really because she couldn't afford to pay a mostly your $300 bar bill and felt some sort of obligation to pay not only for the drinks that you offered to buy for her but all of your many drinks as well? I guess each of us can only speculate.


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..absolutey not! i am not to be admired.

IMO - based on this thread, I don't think you'll have any problem with that request. :roll: :?

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Srilm,

I agree with MG, you won't get any admiration from me or, hopefully and presumably, anybody else. What really gets me is that you just don't get and actually seem to be proud of what you do and think the rest of us would like to do ourselves if we only had the balls.

My "great humanitarian" comment was said sarcastically (hence the emoticon that followed it), but I wasn't the one talking about how "the ladies who go home with me always get their drinks for free" as if that were some kind of noble act.

Also, there is no western thinking on my part going on here. My point is that you should know how it sometimes works in the west, like it or not. If you don't want girls to "scam" you for drinks, then simply don't offer to buy them any to begin with or else understand that you may just be pissing away your money. The control is all yours unless you choose to give it away. In fact, if any western thinking is going on here it is yours in thinking that the only way to try and pick up women is to spend (or act like you are going to spend) a lot of money on them. If finding girls who will go home with you without your having to pry them with free drinks is so hard, then at least save your money for places like CR where at least it won't cost you as much to buy their affections.

Misleading some foolish sap into falsely ASSUMING he has a shot is certainly a mean thing to do, but caveat emptor applies whenever you're trying to pick up girls in bars. And, besides, 2 wrongs don't make a right. Trying to stick anybody for the tab not just the for the drinks that YOU voluntarily offered to buy them, but all of the drinks you drank yourself, can never be justified, makes you just as bad as any of them and only serves to reinforce the negative stereotypes gringas have about men as creeps not to be trusted either. The best way to deal with it is simply to avoid those types of women or, if you can't, at least tread carefully before laying out lots of cash on a gal who is not an absolute lock.

What makes you THINK that those girls wanted to have some strange guy pick them up, take them home and screw them for the price of a few drinks? The fact that they got dressed up so sexy? That might mean they're trying to attract SOMEbody's attention (though not necessarily yours). The fact that they laughed at a few of your jokes? That might mean they like you at least a little bit (or the drinks you're plying them with) and might be interested in giving you their number to ask them out later, but it doesn't necessarily mean they want to roll over on their heels and spread their legs for you that night. Did all of these that girls you've stiffed for the drinks you said you were buying them and the many drinks you had yourself, all actually say they'd let you Phuck them if you bought them drinks? I doubt it.

Honestly, I never heard such ridiculous rationalization in my life. If you really think that things should work differently then they do, then at least ALWAYS be completely upfront about it from the beginning instead of trying to teach them some sort of lesson after the fact that. The only lesson they will learn if any is that some guys are just as "scummy" and untrustworthy as you seem to think most of them are. If your way is really so fair then none of them should have any problem with your upfront offer. Better yet, rather seeing it as your self-appointed job to teach women to live up to some sort of bargain that probably exists only in your mind, you should just forget about women who think they can lay out those terms (you have to buy them free drinks and meals and "maybe" you'll win the prize) and instead live up to your own words and lay out your terms from square one. Sister, you're either into me or your not, I don't care because I don't need to buy girls like you.

In this particular case, IF you REALLY told this girl AHEAD of time that she'd have to pay the tab for all her drinks and yours or else sleep with you, AND she AGREED to it by drinking with you, then she had an obligation to pay in one way or the other. she should had the choice on how to live up to the contract, but I find it really find it hard to believe that any gringa would ever agree to that unless she was already some cheap whore that didn't mind putting out for a few drinks. Personally, there is something about your story that doesn't quite add up. For example, what sort of place lets you run up a $300 bar tab without at least running a credit card? And, if you knew the girl was macking on the bartender every time you went to the bathroom, what made you think she was really that much into you? And, if you knew she wasn't really that much into you, why did you let her continue to con you (or let her thinkshe was coning you) into buying not only her but now all her friends so many more drinks? And is it really worth all that trouble to pursue chicks who supposedly play such games and really aren't into you (or likely to respond that enthusiastically later to your sexual techniques) rather than simply moving on and finding a nicer girl who actually is into you?

Like Jmac said, unconventional approach, but hey if it works for you then go for it. That's your choice. Personally, I'll stick to my more "conventional" ways.


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Guess I will just keep my left over money :D


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Now Brother Srilm's post was a wake-up call top to bottom, wasn't it? Thanks for sharing, brother. No joke

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