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RE: Slackers and Entitlement: Who ARE These People, Anyway?
The world is full of bottom feeders who will try and take advantage in a barter or trade deal. We see a price on something and if we know it is a fair price we don't haggle. Here the "lets take advantage" works two ways. Often we see people inflate the prices by 50% to 100% because we are foreigners. Those get one chance to make it right or we walk.
I remember some of that "attitude" from living in the south of Spain as a teenager. Some of the locals thought the "rubio" could be taken advantage of... of course, their tone changed when I would shoot back at them fluently in Spanish, IN the local dialect.
That is always so much fun! I like when I am in town and they talk about the gringa not knowing anything. Turn around and blast out of the water and watch the back peddle. lol