Comments on: Did I Tell You About The Time We Didn’t Get Robbed?

By: Larry Baker

Larry Baker — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 14:26:09 +0000

We got stopped yesterday afternoon because in my confusion on Montejo, I ran a red light. The motorcycle cop was polite enough and kept repeating one of the few words we understood, “infraction”. Indra bombarded the officer with every form we had including FM3, car registration, my Mexican driver’s license, etc. pointed at the Mexican car sticker on our window, etc. With a few “lo sientos” from us, and the fact he found out we were hicks from Progreso, he finally said “no infraction” this time but to be careful.
Side note: The only thing I line about my Spanish keyboard at work is I can make a “ñ”. Relative to nothing in this post.

By: Suz

Suz — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:35:11 +0000

Glad you posted this. Overall here the police have actually been helpful, which is something I am having to get used to coming from a po-dunk Oregon town where “the good ole boys” still have their outpost. I was actually glad they were there when I got into a fender bender on Montejo….they talked me down, insurance people showed up and did their thing, and I was on my way…..I can not complain one bit about the law enforcement here in Yucatan…glad all your stuff was still there. And yes, we too have been lulled into being much more casual about things here, so I don’t believe you were “out of your mind”.

By: Malcolm

Malcolm — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:45:03 +0000

Alrighty!

By: Jonna

Jonna — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:04:16 +0000

Did you say you were from the east coast of the USA? Cuz, I’m from LA and SF and if I ever left my purse or cell phone or what the fuckever in the car in the open I would not expect to find it when I returned. You have to be out of your mind if you did that anywhere.