• People are as friendly here as they are on Guam.
• Our new-used Toyota Corolla has a cassette player. I was hoping for an 8-track but when you buy used you take what you can get.
• I'm still having to remind myself to add the sales tax onto the price of things. In Guam the tax is included in the posted price.
• There are a lot fewer empty houses than I imagined.
• There is a lot more empty retail space than I imagined.
• In spite of the economic slow down they're still building new houses.
• People are expected to make full stops at red lights and stop signs -- and mostly they do. If you don't the camera takes your picture and they mail you a ticket.
• More times than not the Circle K clerks give me soda refills when I bring in my vat. One clerk felt obligated to tell me that the soda is so inexpensive that it hardly costs the company anything to do that.
• Pineapples for $1 each. Mangoes 2 for $1.
4 comments:
I remember the day when you rigged up a cassette player in your car....as I recall, you kept it under the drivers seat. I was impressed. Of course, I was probably 12-years old. :-)
While I don't know what a "vat" is, I can tell you that it costs only pennies to fill your cup with soda while we're paying 1.50 to $3 at restaurants for a glass of the fizzy stuff.
Justin -- My vat is my 44 oz plastic refill cup. And I think you're right. The mark-up is outrageous. The paper cups cost more than the contents or so the Circle K guy told me.
Roy -- I remember installing a cassette player under the seat to make it less of a target for thieves. No one ever messed with it. But it could have been that no one ever bothered to look inside the window of a '64 Rambler.
Gotcha, it's a vat full of soda. Nice! :)
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