Tips, Service fee, Propina, give me more money.
Bring my trip to a close. The new hustle is additional tip on top of the included tip.
Now, every restaurant I go to, they always have either a service fee or propina on the receipt that's included automatically. Now on this trip multiple times at multiple places I've had the person whose in charge of the table tell me that the tip / service fee / propina that's on the receipt is not for them, but its for the restaurant and any cash tip I provide is for them. Like really? I'm paying with card, and my cash is for the chicas, taxi, and coconut guy when I see him.
Everyone got a hustle these days.
Theres always a bigger fish
Last night while hanging out in El Portal my Delirium chica calls me, the only thing I understood was "amor ayudame", then I see all the text messages from her. She's with a group of guys that's with girls she don't trust, they are all about to go back to some big house to finish the night so she wants me to hold some money for her and she will pick it up in the morning, sure I don't mind. I tell her come over to Portal and give me the money because I'm with someone, she says she can't leave the club or the cops will steal from her. Apparently, some cops are walking around in by the clubs randomly searching girls and stealing money out of their purses.
I walk over, see cops walking around, go in the club and she comes down meets me by the bathroom, hands me some Euros and dollars and asks for 20 mil for taxi. I give her the 20, and head back to Portal to finish up with my chica, pay the bill, back to the apartment. Count it out, 400 Euros, 200 US, toss it in the safe and off to play in the jacuzzi with my chica.
She comes over over early morning, and we have a little chat.
I ask her why couldn't she just hold on to the money, she says the girls sometimes steal from each other when they are in large groups and she didn't know if any of them would steal from her.
I ask her what's up with the cops, she says they do that all the time, they will stop girls and steal from them. I tell her she's Colombian so she can report them, she says that will only make things bad for her and they do worse to the Venezuelans. So I tell her what happened to me that night next to Hotel Caribe and she says, the taxi drivers work with the cops late at night and when a gringo is in the car with multiple people, they will approach a check point and flash their lights to the cops to let them know there is a gringo in the car and they can make some money together.
Just part of the food chain I guess. Someone is always taking from someone.
Tonight's my last night, I fly out tomorrow so I'm just going to chill, nice dinner then rooftop bar in Getsemani.