Quote Originally Posted by nicole.edith View Post
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!

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.