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Question: What's the craziest thing you bought from a Baja pharmacist?

Ken Cooke - 7-23-2007 at 03:05 PM

This thread is gonna be fun.

My buddy Ross was celebrating his 40th B-Day, and his Girlfriend wanted to really party. So, he asked me to bring back a 4 pack of Levitra and that he would pay me later.

Inside of the Pharmacy, eyebrows raised when I walked up asking for a box of Levitra. When I told the man behind the counter, "It's not for me...It's for a friend..." everyone working in the Pharmacy broke out laughing. :lol:

DENNIS - 7-23-2007 at 03:44 PM

Years ago, my friend who has lived here for thirty years and speaks zero Español with a thick South Carolina accent, went into a drug store and tried to buy condoms. He tried to explain his desired purchase in his habit of raised volumn but it fell on deaf ears. The clerk, awestruck and confused for sure, handed my friend a bag of M+Ms in hopes it would stop the attack.
He bought them and left the store.

M&M's actually work the same way

BMG - 7-23-2007 at 03:50 PM

as a condom. Safe sex with an M&M can be achieved by simply having the lady hold a single M&M tightly between her knees.

DENNIS - 7-23-2007 at 03:56 PM

The birth control pill that melts in your mouth...not in your hand.

CaboRon - 7-23-2007 at 04:04 PM

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Originally posted by Ken Cooke
This thread is gonna be fun.

My buddy Ross was celebrating his 40th B-Day, and his Girlfriend wanted to really party. So, he asked me to bring back a 4 pack of Levitra and that he would pay me later.

Inside of the Pharmacy, eyebrows raised when I walked up asking for a box of Levitra. When I told the man behind the counter, "It's not for me...It's for a friend..." everyone working in the Pharmacy broke out laughing. :lol:

Brings back memories as a kid of buying condoms in a drugstore .... it never was for me. :lol:

Never purchased the other, my doctor gives me tons of Levitra and Cialas samples. Not that they are for me. :lol:

CaboRon

DENNIS - 7-23-2007 at 04:09 PM

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Originally posted by CaboRon
my doctor gives me tons of Levitra and Cialas samples.

OK but, just remember what happens after four hours.

CaboRon - 7-23-2007 at 04:13 PM

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Originally posted by DENNIS

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Originally posted by CaboRon
my doctor gives me tons of Levitra and Cialas samples.

OK but, just remember what happens after four hours.

That IS a scary disclaimer.... :lol:

The craziest thing I ever bought from a farmacia....

Loretana - 7-23-2007 at 07:29 PM

The Husband and I got into a "Chinese fire drill" back in '86, just off Punta Lobos over some yellowfin tuna.

Well....I caught a treble hook in the back of my knee, it went in clean, and I got a little worried as we drove back in. I needed minor surgery to get the hook out.

We went to the farmacia on Juarez, and that lovely gal lent us her dykes to snap the hook off and then sold us a dose of tetanus serum (from her trusty refrigerator) and a syringe.

Husband promptly pantsed me and injected my tuckus. (Eagle Scout) :smug:

Some customers waiting for their larga distancia call to go through were totally entertained!! :dudette:

bacquito - 7-23-2007 at 07:39 PM

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BAJACAT - 7-23-2007 at 07:53 PM

Once I try to buy hypodermic neddles for my grandmother who was diabetic and the attendant thought I was some kind of drug addict and toll me NO you can have neddles,I left with my tail betewen my legs, and toll my Granny that they don't have any

BajaBruno - 7-25-2007 at 11:08 AM

I pulled a something in my back recently, called my buddy the doc and asked what I should take for it. "Valium," he said, "best and cheapest muscle relaxer there is."

You can buy anything at a Mexican pharmacy in my experience, so I asked for 6 valium. "No," she said, I need a prescription from an MD. What? I thought, did I suddenly enter a space warp and leave the Land of the Free?

A trusted local said that Pres. Calderon had changed all that and now you need a prescription for any drug the US requires a prescription for. Is that true?

CaboRon - 7-25-2007 at 11:26 AM

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Originally posted by BajaBruno
I pulled a something in my back recently, called my buddy the doc and asked what I should take for it. "Valium," he said, "best and cheapest muscle relaxer there is."

You can buy anything at a Mexican pharmacy in my experience, so I asked for 6 valium. "No," she said, I need a prescription from an MD. What? I thought, did I suddenly enter a space warp and leave the Land of the Free?

A trusted local said that Pres. Calderon had changed all that and now you need a prescription for any drug the US requires a prescription for. Is that true?

Unfortunitely they are tightening it up. Several times when porting in Ensanada I could only get them in one pharmacy with out a script. In PV was the best deal one hundred brand name for 35 dollars US plus the twenty dollars for the doc next door. Last fall in Cabo the pharmica wanted one hundred dollars for a hundred and fourty dollars for the doc.
There are over fifty Americans in jail in Baja California at this time for holding prescription drugs without a prescription, the Mexican gov takes this very seriously.
One particulary sad tale is the arrest four years ago of a Gringa who had a scrip for oxyconton back home and ordered over a hundred of these highly addictive pain relievers. She was detained and sentenced to eighteen years in prison. She didn't introduce her US perscription at the trial and so (under MX law) had no grounds for appeal. She also should have gotten a script from a Mexican doctor to be entirely legal while in MX. Very sad.
So get a perscription , it's probably cheaper anywhere than for a Gringo in Cabo San Lucas.
Good Luck, and Stay Legal, CaboRon

Iflyfish - 7-25-2007 at 04:47 PM

Mrsfish and I got some of that Baja liquor that comes in the shape of a woman's body. We had a blast discussing which one of us should take it, supposed to be aphrodisiac. I don’t know about that, but sure like that bottle.

Iflyfish

Oso - 7-25-2007 at 05:04 PM

When I was a stoont at U. of the Americas in the 60's, all manner of "study aids" for all-night cram sessions were readily available without prescription, from little green "Dexies" to "Black Beauties" AKA "Amfetamina 20", black capsules that would keep you wired like a power grid for 3 days straight. The cough suppressant Romilar was available in tablets instead of syrup. With the right combo of other substances, a few of these would produce a golden toned world of Euphoria. Abusers were known as "Rollo Heads" and developed a distinctive walk which looked like they had one foot on the sidewalk and the other in the gutter. A few friends of mine got really strung out on some kind of painkiller designed for terminal cancer patients. I think they're dead now. Maybe tightening up is a good thing.

Farmacia scam

thebajarunner - 7-25-2007 at 05:06 PM

It works like this.
Buy too large a quantity of prescription stuff, without the paperwork and as you exit the shop the guy that sold it to you is on the phone to his local street cop.
Cop separates you from the drugs, and from some mordida (assuming you do not go to jail)
Drugs go back to the store, to get sold again,
and Gringo goes home sans drugs, sans $$ paid the farmacia and sans the mordida.
Moral...... Don't do it!!!

Last year in Quito I needed to buy 20 Valium tabs- I take fhem occasionally for migraines.
They said, 'sorry, cannot have them without a doctor's prescription."
Our host, the president of a local university said, " if you pay the $15 for the prescription then you get the drugs, and they will go and get a prescription for the file."
So, I bot 30 tabs for about $10, $15 for the doc I never met, and outta there.
Ah, Latin America, you gotta love it!

fdt - 7-25-2007 at 06:30 PM

A friend went to the drug store and asked for black condoms, the farmacist asked why he wanted them black and the friend replied that his compadre had died and he needed to go pay his respects to his comadre.

Another friend went to the farmacia and asked for 10 condoms, the farmacist asked him, why don't you just get it laminated?.

Just a joke!

BMG - 7-25-2007 at 09:44 PM

When I was younger I had a hot date for later that evening. Who knows, might get lucky so better to be prepared. I was too embarrassed to ask the young lady at the counter for some condoms so I asked for the pharmacist working in the back. He came and helped me and we chatted a bit while I made the purchase. Later that night when I went to pick up my date and a man answered the door. How was I to know that my date's dad was a pharmacist?

an old joke at that

thebajarunner - 7-25-2007 at 10:31 PM

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Originally posted by BMG
When I was younger I had a hot date for later that evening. Who knows, might get lucky so better to be prepared. I was too embarrassed to ask the young lady at the counter for some condoms so I asked for the pharmacist working in the back. He came and helped me and we chatted a bit while I made the purchase. Later that night when I went to pick up my date and a man answered the door. How was I to know that my date's dad was a pharmacist?

various versions of that joke have been floating around the net for some time now....

Mango - 7-25-2007 at 10:32 PM

Once in Guadalajara I had a really bad cold and a nasty cough. I went to the local pharmacy and bought some Robitussin.

I was pretty used to the stuff here in the states; so, I just took the usual amount, maybe a little more because it was a very bad cough that hurt. I felt much better; but, after about 20 minutes the cough returned with a furry, so I took a little more.

Little did I know the stuff was much more concentrated in Mexico than it was here in the States and soon enough I was hallucinating. It was not what I would call a good time. I became very confused and worrisome. Everything seemed darker and my ears rang.

I started to have a panic attack on the bed in my hotel room. I began to repeatedly read the instructions and the warnings over and over again as I tried to determine what the proper dose was. The effect of the drug on me made me very confused, forgetful, and unsure what to do. Eventually, I determined that I took way too much and needed to treat it as a poisoning.

Worried that I would do some long term damage to my body or the maid would find me dead in the room the next day, I went to the bano and put my finger down my throat to make myself expel the medicine.

I felt much better almost immediately.

Now I am very careful about reading the instructions on medicines bought in Mexico. They may be packaged the same, but often they can be much stronger than the same product here in the states. Be careful.

vacaenbaja - 7-26-2007 at 03:39 AM

I was in a pharmacy when a young man came in and as quitely as possible tried asked the clerk for some condoms.
The pharmacy was filled with women milling about.
Well the pharmacist that worked there
had the habit of taking over sales initiated by the clerks, because after all HE was the pharmacist. Trouble was that he was also quite deaf..... So when he came over and loudly
asked what it was that the young man wanted the request
was made in a low secretive voice followed by a loud QUE!?
once again but a little louder came the request, followed by an even luoder HUH?!! then finally ther reply was made that the pharmacist could hear, but yet low enough that no one knew.. yet. Followed by an exceptionally loud exclamation of
understanding by the pharmacist OH YOU WANT RUBBERS!!
the young man quietly and quicky exited the pharmacy as
all eyes were looking around to see who was buying the
rubbers. No sale was made by the confussed Pharmacist.

BMG - 7-26-2007 at 09:10 AM

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various versions of that joke have been floating around the net for some time now....

I never said it was a new joke. I heard a joke writer for Leno once claim that there are only 200 or so 'core' jokes and all the rest are themes on the same old jokes. Even so, I find it hard to remember most of them shortly after hearing them.

CaboRon - 7-26-2007 at 09:26 AM

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Originally posted by BMG

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various versions of that joke have been floating around the net for some time now....

I sure know what you mean .... I enjoy the joke and then promptly forget it. I have friends who can recite hundreds of jokes. :lol:

CaaboRon

BornFisher - 7-31-2007 at 11:10 AM

This thread reminds me of something I read in the Gringo Gazette last week. At the end of an article about a "gentleman`s club" opening near the Rosirito Beach Hotel, they said something like, "local pharmacies are looking forward to an increase in viagra and condom sales"!!!

Ken Cooke - 7-31-2007 at 06:17 PM

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Originally posted by BornFisher
This thread reminds me of something I read in the Gringo Gazette last week. At the end of an article about a "gentleman`s club" opening near the Rosirito Beach Hotel, they said something like, "local pharmacies are looking forward to an increase in viagra and condom sales"!!!

That's funny!! :lol:

The funniest thing to happen to me...not in a farmacia

Al G - 7-31-2007 at 08:23 PM

Sorry Ken had to contribute Something....

> > I was a very happy man. My wonderful girlfriend and I had been dating
> for over a year, and so we decided to get married.
>
> There was only one little thing bothering me...It was her beautiful
> younger sister. My prospective sister-in-law was twenty-two, wore very
> tight miniskirts, and generally was bra-less. She would regularly bend
> down when she was near me, and I always got more than a nice view. It
> had to be deliberate because she never did it when she was near anyone
> else.
>
> One day her "little" sister called and asked me to come over to check
> the wedding invitations. She was alone when I arrived, and she whispered
> to me that she had feelings and desires for me that she couldn't
> overcome. She told me that she wanted me just once before I got married
> and committed my life to her sister.
>
> Well, I was in total shock, and couldn't say a word. She said, "I'm
> going upstairs to my bedroom, and if you want one last wild fling, just
> come up and get me."
>
> I was stunned and frozen in shock as I watched her go up the stairs. I
> stood there for a moment, then turned and made a beeline straight to the
> front door. I opened the door, and headed straight towards my car.
>
> Lo and behold, my entire future family was standing outside, all
> clapping! With tears in his eyes, my father-in-law hugged me and said,
> "We are very happy that you have passed our little test. We couldn't ask
> for a better man for our daughter. Welcome to the family."
>
> And the moral of this story is:

>
>
>
> Always keep your condoms in your truck > > >

It is related sorta... :biggrin:

CaboRon - 8-1-2007 at 08:11 AM

Enjoyed the story Al ... Or was it a story ? :lol:

-CaboRon

Al G - 8-1-2007 at 10:35 AM

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Originally posted by CaboRon
Enjoyed the story Al ... Or was it a story ? :lol:

-CaboRon

It is all true except the last paragraph...This is an INTERNET story that took me a while to laugh...I was young...and was a problem through out my marriage. Nothing transpired between the two of us and my wife only laugh about it....

AmoPescar - 8-1-2007 at 10:06 PM

I TRIED SOME VIAGRA ONCE....

But it was a very large pill and it got stuck in my throat......I had a STIFF NECK for 3 days ....LOL!!

Miguelamo :lol:

Bajafun777 - 8-1-2007 at 10:14 PM

In high school some friends and I went down to San Luis together. Several of them had an evening of fun pay fun pay and then worry and fear set in with one of my friends just as we got ready to leave the dance/bar/entertainment show. He had to get a shot of penacilin before he went back state side. Well, we went into a pharmacy and the woman pharmacist did give him a shot in the butt and she did this in front of four guys teasing him. Yep standing behind the counter with his pants half pulled down getting a shot that cost him $2 dollars. When your young you do some dumb things and condoms would have been a better choice for my friend to use. Like the saying goes "Young Dumb and looking for Fun."