monedas

sorry not to document recent bitches. will update more faithfully.
Monedas...or coins, as we call them, are very short supply here in the BUE. Why is that? No one seems to know, but everyone has a theory. The main one is that the bus company keeps all the millions of coins they get since everyone on god's good earth takes the bus here, and then they sell them by weight at a profit.
Yesterday, my birthday, we found ourselves ready to go out and have a great day, but literlly without a coin between us. No one else was around. We were trapped in the barrio! Annoying. I went out to try and buy cheap stuff I didn't want to get some change back, but stores are actually changing the prices on their items so THEY don't have to give you as many coins back. It's so dumb. the other dumb thing is that they don't have a pass card system for use on the buses. Yes, I am riding around in a flintstone bus. It's the stone age here baby.
Eventually, we begged some off a brother (a real brother) and were on our way. Throughout the day we picked up more and more coins so we could actually get home. what a relief.