Shift Change Overlap Is Prime Time In El Centro
[QUOTE=SlapShot10;2544632]Ok, noted. Thanks for the tip. I think I know who you're talking about. Two trips ago, she gave me the whistle from a distance, and I have to admit I looked back a couple of times to assess. As you mentioned in the other post, there did seem to be a lot of activity, yesterday afternoon. I also noticed that there appeared to be a wave of girls I hadn't seen around 4-5 p walking around closer to 6 p. Is this typical? I don't necessarily want to be around when the lights go down, per se. Especially, if I'm 6-7 beers deep, and solo. However, maybe it's worth it to do a quick search before sunset.[/QUOTE]The very best time to be in El Centro is between the hours of 4 PM and 6 PM because there basically is a shift change with an overlap of girls who work during the day and don't want to be there in the evening, and the gilrs that show up late in the afternoon who work until mid evening say around 9 PM. So between 4 PM and 6 PM, that's prime time!
As far as the lights going out, well there is still a fair amount of activity up until 9 PM, but when all the storefronts and restaraunts have shut down, it's time to get out of Dodge! It becomes a different world and not a good idea to be walking around, however if your down at Avendia de La Grief where this is a lot of activity it's safer as the zombies and night crawlers prefer the deserted areas.
As far as the Vennie, I've checked her out several times, and she is always at the same spot and you should at least talk with her. If she quotes you more than 30 K before clarifying your BBBJ request, than that should raise a "red flag", as she gets pulled a lot, and probably knows how to work the gringos, but maybe I'm wrong, she might be really cool or a total dud. That's the beauty of El Centro. If you get a dud, or say your not able to blow a load, you just go back out and grab another one because it's so cheap to do so.
So Much For Social Distancing
So yesterday they started Pico why Cedula meaning depending on whether your ID ends in an even or odd number your either allowed in or out of major stores, like EXITO, and it's nice as I was in EXITO today shopping and it wasn't nearly as crowded and faster to check out then before Pico why Cedula.
However, they have made some changes within the Metro operations, at least that is what I have observed the past two days which is not good. Yesterday I went to the Poblado Station around 4 PM and to use my Civica to get thru the turnsyle, they now have like a 10 second wait period before the next rider can swipe to enter. Okay so no big deal, I arrived at Parque Berrio and upon returning from ground zero at 6 PM, there was like a twenty minute wait for a car to come headed back to the Poblado station, where as there was three other cars going in the opposite direction. And when the car finally arrived, not everybody was able to get in because the car was so packed, and people were fighting others literally to let the people get off the car. So after finally getting in the car and staying close to the door and upon arriving at the Poblado station it was the same thing again, people literally fighting to get off and on. So so much for social distancing, they are trying to reduce exposure to the virus, but it's a total joke. So upon exiting the Poblado station they were still metering the swiping at the turnstyles, and there was a line from the Station at 6 PM all the way to Avenida Las Vegas, and 100 meters heading south. I have never seen such a long line to get on the METRO ever and it was probably at least an hours wait or more. And at 1 PM today I entered the Industriales Station headed to the Poblado station and although there was no line to get into the station, the car was jam packed upon arrival.
For the past month, and up until Thursday, the METRO has been great with no delays or waits or overcrowding but they've made some changes since Thursday. And it's a joke with all of the "footprints'" on the floor of the Metro cars to delineate social distancing.