Comments on: A Little Surprise http://www.expatmom.info/little-surprise/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:57:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: http://www.expatmom.info/little-surprise/comment-page-1/#comment-3521 Wed, 17 Feb 2010 03:14:18 +0000 http://www.expatmom.info/?p=1975#comment-3521 Ugh, the Bodegona is just awful, half the stuff there is spoiled! I definitely prefer the Dispensa, even with less selection . . . but the little surprises are great, too! Pay less, get more. :D That also trumps my gringa theory . . . since you fit right in around here. Ugh, the Bodegona is just awful, half the stuff there is spoiled! I definitely prefer the Dispensa, even with less selection . . . but the little surprises are great, too! Pay less, get more. :D

That also trumps my gringa theory . . . since you fit right in around here.

]]> By: http://www.expatmom.info/little-surprise/comment-page-1/#comment-3520 Wed, 17 Feb 2010 03:13:17 +0000 http://www.expatmom.info/?p=1975#comment-3520 That's cool that people go out of their way to do stuff for you! Once we asked the local tienda to deliver some groceries, among them, nacho chips and a bag of nacho cheese. Well, they delivered everything but the cheese . . . then came back about 20 min. later with cheese, saying that they'd had to run into Antigua to buy it because the store was out and what good were chips without the cheese! :) It really does help to be nice to people. That’s cool that people go out of their way to do stuff for you! Once we asked the local tienda to deliver some groceries, among them, nacho chips and a bag of nacho cheese. Well, they delivered everything but the cheese . . . then came back about 20 min. later with cheese, saying that they’d had to run into Antigua to buy it because the store was out and what good were chips without the cheese! :) It really does help to be nice to people.

]]> By: connie http://www.expatmom.info/little-surprise/comment-page-1/#comment-3519 connie Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:43:21 +0000 http://www.expatmom.info/?p=1975#comment-3519 You may be nicer to the cashiers than they are used to. The unfriendliness may be defensive and you didn't give her anything to defend herself against. We've lived in a couple places where we've been told that we 'overtip'. Actually, we tip like we do anywhere... about 15% for good service, 20% for excellent, and nothing for horrible... but it's enough. We've been given free coffees and desserts in restaurants, extras from delivery guys, delivery guys who make a return trip without being asked if they forget something simple (seriously.. we've had sodas forgotten by hurried pizza guys, and forget telling them to forget it - they make a return trip!) Just smiling and being nice - when it is unexpected - goes miles, even if personal gain is NOT the goal. How nice for you to be surprised like this :) You may be nicer to the cashiers than they are used to. The unfriendliness may be defensive and you didn’t give her anything to defend herself against. We’ve lived in a couple places where we’ve been told that we ‘overtip’. Actually, we tip like we do anywhere… about 15% for good service, 20% for excellent, and nothing for horrible… but it’s enough. We’ve been given free coffees and desserts in restaurants, extras from delivery guys, delivery guys who make a return trip without being asked if they forget something simple (seriously.. we’ve had sodas forgotten by hurried pizza guys, and forget telling them to forget it – they make a return trip!) Just smiling and being nice – when it is unexpected – goes miles, even if personal gain is NOT the goal. How nice for you to be surprised like this :)

]]> By: Ann http://www.expatmom.info/little-surprise/comment-page-1/#comment-3517 Ann Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:27:03 +0000 http://www.expatmom.info/?p=1975#comment-3517 Hey, they gave me one too! But that was over a month ago. I go to the Dispensa at least once a week. Once they also handed me a long garland of detergent samples and on another occasion I got a tupperware type bowl with cover.I've also looked around if anybody else gets these surprises...zip! Only me! This week I didn't get any though...they probably saved the guacal for someone specific who'd buy 4 packages of chicken and 3 lbs of ground beef and 6 cans of tomato paste. Had you added something like Tortrix or cotton buds, you wouldn't have gotten it. Oh isn't it great? I love getting surprises... I go to the Bodegona at least once a week too, just for the fresh herbs and their great selection of ham... but I never got a surprise... just spoiled milk :( Hey, they gave me one too! But that was over a month ago. I go to the Dispensa at least once a week. Once they also handed me a long garland of detergent samples and on another occasion I got a tupperware type bowl with cover.I’ve also looked around if anybody else gets these surprises…zip! Only me! This week I didn’t get any though…they probably saved the guacal for someone specific who’d buy 4 packages of chicken and 3 lbs of ground beef and 6 cans of tomato paste. Had you added something like Tortrix or cotton buds, you wouldn’t have gotten it. Oh isn’t it great? I love getting surprises… I go to the Bodegona at least once a week too, just for the fresh herbs and their great selection of ham… but I never got a surprise… just spoiled milk :(

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