Hillbeartoe
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Kinda missed the point maybe?
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playaperro
El Pirata
Yeah, maybe you guys think the same, enlighten me. I know about the Y, not a very nice place to skip on gas.
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Jungle Jim
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The Pemex boys in RP do it all of the time but on a smaller scale.
Their favorite trick is to not clear the meter on the pump after the last sale. They rush over and pull the nozzle off before you can get out of your vehicle and see what's on the meter. No matter what they have started to do I make em put the nozzle back on the pump and show me a clear meter.
A clown at the Pemex across from Reggie's tried that on me last Saturday morning while filling two jerry cans for my Santo Thomas beach run.
JJ
Their favorite trick is to not clear the meter on the pump after the last sale. They rush over and pull the nozzle off before you can get out of your vehicle and see what's on the meter. No matter what they have started to do I make em put the nozzle back on the pump and show me a clear meter.
A clown at the Pemex across from Reggie's tried that on me last Saturday morning while filling two jerry cans for my Santo Thomas beach run.
JJ
Back in the day on route to San Carlos, at about 2am, as I pulled into what used to be the first Pemex by the roundabout in Hermosillo, two guys eagerly directed me over to a particular pump. Being tired, it was a bit rough doing the Dollar/Peso/liter/gallon formula in my head and so I paid them what they claimed. After decompressing on the beach for a while and doing the math, I was convinced that my newly rebuilt '65 mustang gas tank couldn't possibly have taken that much gas, and so a few weeks later despite my wife's fearful pleading, I stopped into that same gas station on the way back.
I was expecting a real head to head confrontation with the manager when I made by case for being overcharged, but all he asked was which pump I had used and without any more ado he handed me the amount that I had claimed, without contest. Hmmm!
I was expecting a real head to head confrontation with the manager when I made by case for being overcharged, but all he asked was which pump I had used and without any more ado he handed me the amount that I had claimed, without contest. Hmmm!
Hillbeartoe
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Wasn't commenting on the skipping the bill as much as the fact he was going to be robbed. I am sure that the 12 year old running the station wasn't the one actually in control.....
And on further contemplation I wonder what most people would have done if:
1. You were about to be robbed?
2. Disputing such a charge could result in a one sided armed conflict?
3. Not stopping for a possibly corrupt and unfriendly self proclaimed law enforcement agent?
Me, I probably would have payed, and left the country never to return.
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playaperro
El Pirata
If he would of let the guy relieving himself come out he would not be having that guilty syndrome he now suffers.
Mexico Joe
Cholla Bay 4 Life
That Pemex is sketch!!!!!! Then leaving there and driving south on that highway that connects back with the coastal highway was SKETTTTTTCHHHH!!! Just ejido after ejido... almost something out of a movie. It was pretty surreal to be driving alone down a desolate Mexican highway in the middle of the desert with ejido land and haciendas on both sides of the roadway SOLO!!!! Or... maybe it was the weed that had me paranoid... dont think so. That place is f#cking SKETCH dude... What does Russ have to say about Y-GRIEGA????? I'm sure nothing but pleasant things I would imagine....
Mexico Joe
Cholla Bay 4 Life
Those ejidos are holding and we're not talking produce...
mexicoruss
Lovin it in RP!
Well now that you ask.....I have been visiting Mexico for 32 years +-. I have lived here as a full time resident for 9+ years. I have never felt threaten ever except in Y griega. Several years ago, while filling up at the gas station going to Desemboque I was confronted by a recent deportee who was slurring insults at Americans, he was at best, sketch, after he told me he hated Sheriff Joe for what he called injustice he sort of threatened me and my Bro inlaw. Of course because I have bad judgement I didn't back down. I told him I was a resident of Mexico and happy to be so. He didn't care. He was yelling and screaming at me and all Americans. We took it for what it was, pent up frustration about the world that we live in. He walked away with his friends pulling him out of the situation. I wasn't worried but I don't intimidate easy ( bad judgement).
I tell my guest as we flow through that area that it is (Y griega) a drug lord stronghold, that there is basically no police and that daytime travel is fine....you wouldn't want to break down there at night. I am a realist and know the limits but I don't think I am afforded credit in that area of my expertise. 20,000 miles a year driving the roads in Mexico, no problems, zero problems. Something must be right!
I do not like Y Griega though. I do go through there a few times a month and have no worries.
I tell my guest as we flow through that area that it is (Y griega) a drug lord stronghold, that there is basically no police and that daytime travel is fine....you wouldn't want to break down there at night. I am a realist and know the limits but I don't think I am afforded credit in that area of my expertise. 20,000 miles a year driving the roads in Mexico, no problems, zero problems. Something must be right!
I do not like Y Griega though. I do go through there a few times a month and have no worries.
jerry
Guest
Thanks to Chapo.....but still you have not lived until you get the Roasted Pig Face at Girl and The Goat on Randolph....love Chicago ......http://www.yelp.com/biz/girl-and-the-goat-chicago?osq=south+state+street+restaurants