I agree with going with the respect line
"no thank you" and being firm
I agree with going with the respect line
"no thank you" and being firm
Ya'll have me laughing.
"Where you stay?"
"The Hummingbird."
Then I remembered this:http://www.realnegril.com/royale/
So, you could be staying there!
After 30 years, there aren't many things I haven't already purchased so I just tell them that. For those proffering drugs, I hold up my hand palm forward and rock it back and forth, "No mon. Christian." Works every time.
We're all in this together and none of us is getting out alive.
Wow... so many tricks and lies to get one's point across.
We've been going to Negril for 30 years and have found that an honest and sincere "No, thank you" almost always works.
Also, never realized Christians don't smoke ganja.
when we were there in june we didn't have any issues with the hustlers and beggars except for one guy. He tried every day, several times a day to sell me weed. No matter how many times I told him no thank you I don't use drugs, he would say "yes you do! I know you do!. He even hit my wife up to buy some for me cuz he knew I wanted it..Go figure....It got comical after the 2nd or 3rd day...But that was the only issue we ever had. Mostly we would say no thank you unless it was something we wanted to look at. Also the security guard told us what to do when we first got there about walking on the beach..#1 Don't shake their hand just say no thank you and keep walking. If they keep pressing say no thank you again and say respect..it worked every time.
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Sometimes it's better to beg for forgiveness than ask for permission.
Funny story related to this topic:
I'm a newb and I'll be in JA for the first time in about a week with my BFF. I have been accumulating my JA 'stuff' in a bag for a while now (it's custom for our international travels that I slowly gather items for a trip over about a month and pile them all in one spot in a bag). When it's about a week before the actual trip, I move the bag to our spare bedroom where I s get out the suitcase and start doing that whole 'what stays, what goes' dance that I'm sure is familiar to fellow travellers.
The other night I was going through my stuff and I noticed a squirt gun. I hadn't put the squirt gun with my JA stuff, had I? I tried to remember, but I was pretty sure I wouldn't have included a squirt gun. I recently purchased a few bags of items to bring with to donate to St. Anthony's, so I asked my husband if he'd taken one of our son's unused squirt guns and placed it with my stuff so I could donate it, which was weird, but the only possible explanation. So I asked him about it.
His simple response was that, "the squirt gun is for those beach boys you were telling me about the other night. Just squirt them in the face and they should go away and leave you two (me and my BFF) alone."
Hahahaha! I think the squirt gun probably wouldn't be terribly effective at busting the beach boy game, but I thought that my husband's response and 'plan' to protect me from afar was too hilarious and cute not to share.
Ha ha ha, that is hilarious! Easy enough solution for him - 'cause he wouldn't have to deal with the irate vendor you'd have on your hands!Originally Posted by nicole.edith
Funny story related to this topic:
I'm a newb and I'll be in JA for the first time in about a week with my BFF. I have been accumulating my JA 'stuff' in a bag for a while now (it's custom for our international travels that I slowly gather items for a trip over about a month and pile them all in one spot in a bag). When it's about a week before the actual trip, I move the bag to our spare bedroom where I s get out the suitcase and start doing that whole 'what stays, what goes' dance that I'm sure is familiar to fellow travellers.
The other night I was going through my stuff and I noticed a squirt gun. I hadn't put the squirt gun with my JA stuff, had I? I tried to remember, but I was pretty sure I wouldn't have included a squirt gun. I recently purchased a few bags of items to bring with to donate to St. Anthony's, so I asked my husband if he'd taken one of our son's unused squirt guns and placed it with my stuff so I could donate it, which was weird, but the only possible explanation. So I asked him about it.
His simple response was that, "the squirt gun is for those beach boys you were telling me about the other night. Just squirt them in the face and they should go away and leave you two (me and my BFF) alone."
Hahahaha! I think the squirt gun probably wouldn't be terribly effective at busting the beach boy game, but I thought that my husband's response and 'plan' to protect me from afar was too hilarious and cute not to share.
Our first trip to the beach, for the first few days their were some persistent vendors, but 'no thank you' really did work most of the time. On our return journey, the few persistent ones I followed that up with a very polite "is there a problem?" which seemed to generate an almost ingrained and automatic 'no, no problem' response. After they'd just told me there was no problem, they didn't seem to have much of a comeback. A 'respect' at that point pretty much ended the conversation.
Hi Nicole,
Please don't take any form of gun to Jamaica, even toy squirt guns. too much gun violence in this world. I can't even imagine what would happen if one of the beach guys got squirted, but probably would escalate the situation beyond imagination.
I'm sorry that I implied I would take a squirt gun. I never said I would - I thought it was a cute story. Sorry to offend. I would NEVER propagate gun violence by bring a squirt gun. In fact, we don't even call them guns at our house, we call them water blasters. I was just sharing a light-hearted story. Again, no offense intended.
Last edited by nicole.edith; 08-28-2013 at 09:22 AM.
Hi Nicole,
No offense taken, LOL, just pointing out some folks may take offense if their child brings home any form of a gun, even a well intentioned gift.
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