DavidE
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Mood: 'At home we demand facts and get them. In Mexico one subsists on rumor and never demands anything.' Charles Flandrau,
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ATM's The 20/99 Rule
Yep I started out for Mulege this morning. Drove sane. Arrived in
vizcaino, and got the tires switched on the car. Headed for the one and only bank and the one and only ATM in a 40-mile radius.
Long-long cola. Nine, fourteen, seventeen, twenty and then me.
28 minutes later I got to be second in line. Then a young man came out and said "Está fuera de servicio".
Read the screen. Yep. The machine is out of money. 11:40AM. The young lady ahead of me had remarked she had tried earlier and found over thirty people
in line. Maybe forty she said. Went all the way across the portico and out into the parking lot.
My 20/99 rule goes like this: If I get in a line with 20 or more people ahead of me waiting to use the ATM, ninety nine times out of a hundred it will
break down just as my turn comes.
No way was I going to try to go 130 miles with 20 pesos jingling in my pocket. And a quarter tank of gas. Yeah then I get -there- and get into some
glitch, like 500 miners waiting for whatever ATM's are available in Santa Rosalia. It's Friday, and social insecurity decreed my money shall arrive of
the third And then have enough arrogance to continue on to Mulege (thinning fumes by then) to see an ATM screen message that says "Bienvenidos!
Stupid! Estoy Bancarrota "
The Vizcaino Bancomer ATM does not like me. four out of eight tries, out of service, two tries out of eight, limited to a thousand pesos. Continue to
Guerrero Negro, Bancomer, cajero automatico, NO PROBLEMO.
So i laughed and ended up back in Guerrero Negro. The Similares store just had a delivery an hour before I got there and they dug through the packages
to find my medicines. Life in the slow lane.
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Ateo
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Thanks for the laugh. I'm sorry you had to drive back to G. Negro but that was a smart move.
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Timo1
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Did they take the other ATM in Vizcaino out ???
There used to be a free stander south of the bank
sold out and got out !!!
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tiotomasbcs
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I've done that! And chose GN and was awarded for my choice. First of the month! Farm workers paycheck! You could possibly worky out a pymt system
wsomeone like Kadeakeman but would cost 10% or gas money to and from GN. Ya gotta love the Central coast cause some things are not easy but can be
done! Tio
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Lee
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DavidE
My 20/99 rule goes like this: If I get in a line with 20 or more people ahead of me waiting to use the ATM, ninety nine times out of a hundred it will
break down just as my turn comes. |
If I were a betting kinda guy, I'd bet you still get in line with 20 or more people.
I'd also bet it took a lot of long lines to come up with this rule.
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DavidE
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Mood: 'At home we demand facts and get them. In Mexico one subsists on rumor and never demands anything.' Charles Flandrau,
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Lee, I wish I didn't have the experience. It is frustrating. In Guerrero Negro I walked right up to the machine twice. Nobody around. Coming back I
passed the Bancomer in Vizcaino and counted eleven folks waiting in line. I was driving in the paralelo so I could pull over to get the count right.
MAGNA August price 10.05 per liter.
PREMIUM 10.45 liter
DIESEL 10.38 liter
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