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dixie
Joined: 23 Apr 2006
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Location: D.F
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SALSA!!!
I love it!! Esp. since I'm a vegertarian so it really helps to change up the quesadillas that I typically eat when I go out (but I love them anyways...so it's just a good-good situation!)
moteles de paso....no comment 
cheap corona and cigarettes...and being able to smoke nearly everywhere
the language....even though mine sucks unless I'm drunk, talking to my dog or the taxi driver
the attention...which is a love/hate thing (yes my eyes are blue...and thank you for saying they're nice....) but I love how people admire my dog!
did I mention salsa??? |
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ls650
Joined: 10 May 2003
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Location: British Columbia
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| Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 2:49 pm Post subject: |
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| dixie wrote: |
| cheap corona and cigarettes...and being able to smoke nearly everywhere |
The cheap beer I'll go along with, but cheap cigarettes everywhere aren't such a great thing if you don't smoke.  |
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Guy Courchesne
Joined: 10 Mar 2003
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Location: Mexico City
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| Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 3:43 pm Post subject: |
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| ls650 wrote: |
| dixie wrote: |
| cheap corona and cigarettes...and being able to smoke nearly everywhere |
The cheap beer I'll go along with, but cheap cigarettes everywhere aren't such a great thing if you don't smoke. |
Nor if you're trying to quit. |
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hlamb
Joined: 09 Dec 2003
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Location: Canada
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| Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 6:51 pm Post subject: |
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| ls650 wrote: |
| dixie wrote: |
| cheap corona and cigarettes...and being able to smoke nearly everywhere |
The cheap beer I'll go along with, but cheap cigarettes everywhere aren't such a great thing if you don't smoke. |
Or if you have someone living in the same house who smokes and insists on doing it near non smokers despite requests to stop.  She's also a coworker, so it's a bit difficult. But she is talking about moving out, which would solve the problem. Funnily enough she's a nice person otherwise, she just has no sensitivity to non-smokers. |
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sickbag
Joined: 10 Jan 2005
Posts: 155
Location: Blighty
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| Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 11:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Guy Courchesne wrote: |
| ls650 wrote: |
| dixie wrote: |
| cheap corona and cigarettes...and being able to smoke nearly everywhere |
The cheap beer I'll go along with, but cheap cigarettes everywhere aren't such a great thing if you don't smoke. |
Nor if you're trying to quit. |
Amen to that. I have an unfinished pack looking at me right now. |
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delacosta
Joined: 14 Apr 2004
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Location: zipolte beach
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| Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 12:02 am Post subject: |
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What I like and both dislike is that they sell 'sueltos', or single cigarettes.
I currently smoke two marlboro reds a day. I really enjoy each of them.
If I could only buy packs I'd probably smoke a pack a day, as I have in the past. As is I'm able to limit myself to the two.
But deep down I'd prefer not to smoke any-having singles available at 2 peos each is preventing me from ta.king that final step... |
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TheLongWayHome
Joined: 07 Jun 2006
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Location: San Luis Piojosi
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| Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 1:28 pm Post subject: |
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| dixie wrote: |
| cheap corona and cigarettes...and being able to smoke nearly everywhere |
In San Luis, the most close-minded state in Mexico, it's naco to smoke in the street. Is it only San Luis or is this a Mexico-wide thing? |
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Ben Round de Bloc
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 1:56 pm Post subject: |
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| TheLongWayHome wrote: |
| In San Luis, the most close-minded state in Mexico, it's naco to smoke in the street. Is it only San Luis or is this a Mexico-wide thing? |
It's not considered naco, fresa, or anything else to smoke in the street in the city where I live. |
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delacosta
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Location: zipolte beach
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| Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 2:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Until recently profs could smoke during classes where I am. |
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Ben Round de Bloc
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| Until recently profs could smoke during classes where I am. |
When I started teaching at the university here, students were allowed to smoke in classes at some of the facultades. Classrooms had sort of smoking sections at the back near the windows. |
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Guy Courchesne
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| Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 4:02 pm Post subject: |
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| TheLongWayHome wrote: |
| San Luis, the most close-minded state in Mexico |
You're starting to make me think that's on the license plates or state letterhead.
Nobody thinks much of smoking out in the streets here, though attitudes in some restaurants are changing.
How about for women smoking? I've been told that is considered bad form for a woman to smoke while walking, but ok if she's seated. |
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delacosta
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Thread hijack: smoking story. How about doctors smoking while they see patients, in a hospital, in emergency!?
I remember when I had recently arrived here and a friend came to visit for a few months. I found her a house and she went on a tour of Central America and returned a month later, quite sick and complaining of constant stomach pains. At that time I really didn't know what to do as I'd just gone through the same thing myself and took the usual IMSS prescribed boxes of nuclear antibiotics, which nearly killed me, but also wiped out my new stomach friends.
I suggested the same but she didn't want to take 'all those pills'.
A few days on she came by my house one afternoon almost in tears complaining of the pain and asked me to take her to the hospital, to emergency. I tried to explain that I couldn't really recommend that option but just then some wicked pain shot through her and she screamed out 'I think I'm dieing pleeese take me to the hospital.' I wanted to say that going to the hospital would increase her odds of dieing but instead took off in search of a cab to take us there.
By the time we got there she was crying and quite frantic, so they took her in right away and brought her to a bed in a room.
A doctor felt her stomach and just then the pain seemed to go away and she calmed down. With me translating the doctor asked her a bunch of questions and left to bring back 3 more doctors, to get their opinions.
The four of them and myself all stood around the bed, looking at her and them asking me questions-like where I was from and what I did and was she my wife, etc. She interrupted us to demand what they were talking about. I had to tell her that it was ok, they weren�t talking about her.
�Oh� and a look of starting to understand why I had tried to dissuade her from coming here.
The first doctor then brought out a pack of Marlboros and lit up, offering the other docs one as well. They all lit up. Out of politeness I declined. My friend looked on from the bed in stunned disbelief.
Then the first doctor went over and asked her if it hurt just here, and poked her with his finger in a spot. She shrieked out in pain and nodded yes, that's the place. So the doc stepped back and took a few puffs and they all hummed and hawed and smoked and another one stepped up and poked her again, asking, here? She shrieked again.
As the next doctor moved towards her for his turn at a poke both she and I moved to stop him, with her once again breaking into tears.
They all stepped back and consulted each other, slowly filling up the unventilated stifling room with their smoke. I understood that they were debating whether they should open up her stomach- I tried to keep a neutral face. Then the first doctor asked me what I thought and they all looked at me expectantly.
I replied �la verdad creo que no es buena idea�-I don�t think it�s such a good idea.
�Pleease! what are you all talking about�?!
I tried to make my voice as serious as I could and stated: we have to go, now. They want to keep you overnight and are considering operating on you. Trust me. Let�s go, now.
Ok she whispered, finally understanding, and we left. She left Mexico soon after and indeed had a very difficult and long time getting rid of whatever bugs she had picked up.
She declined my wedding invitation last February, saying that she would never ever in her life return to such a place.
I didn�t take it personally. |
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