La Perlita Closed???
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Just to clarify what Christi is saying, A non citizen is prohibited in engaging in any sort of political activity of any kind. Even if you want to support a cause or protest or contribute to a candidate you cannot. A tourist cannot join a picket line. A tourist cannot campaign against shoreline development for example. A tourist can help social/humane causes. They can bring contributions and volunteer at places like the humane society for example. It makes sense in the idea that if you want to help, then do something to help. But if you just want to complain and protest then keep it to yourself.
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Different strokes..... what ever the health dept. issues were...or weren't, I know we have never had any issues eating there...other than being out of lionfish. (Which is actually a horrifying event) I will be eating at La Perlita on October 28, and several more times until November 4. It's Mexico, I don't expect, or particularly want, American standards, American rules, American culture, or American anything else. I choose to go to Mexico, not Florida or South Texas. I'm sure most of the restaurants we love have issues that would make an American Health Inspector cringe.....but again....it's Mexico. It's the country where a family of five, including a baby in a backpack, can get on one scooter and drive in traffic where the traffic laws or more suggestions and surrounded by drunk cruisers zipping around in dune buggies. Helmet laws...nope. Baby car seats...nada. It's the country that I walked into a bar in Acuna called Landos and ordered a beer at the age of 13, and after a few more with a $6 steak, repeated the process at Ma Crosby's. Weekends in Acuna, and trips to the hill, were a staple of growing up in West Texas.
From teenaged kisses to broken noses, I would not have changed a thing, or missed it for the world. I learned my actions have consequences, don't start anything I can't finish, don't put myself in a position I can't get myself out of, that your mouth is capable of writing checks your butt cant cash, and to take care of myself at a young age. In short, I learned personal responsibility. Absolutely valueable lessons. One of the things I love most about Cozumel is the lack of Governmental over regulation of individual lives. The people and the diving would be first, the food a close second, everything else third.
I never intended to create the Shitstorm this thread turned into. So at risk of starting this thing over again.....I take it La Perlita is back open?
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From teenaged kisses to broken noses, I would not have changed a thing, or missed it for the world. I learned my actions have consequences, don't start anything I can't finish, don't put myself in a position I can't get myself out of, that your mouth is capable of writing checks your butt cant cash, and to take care of myself at a young age. In short, I learned personal responsibility. Absolutely valueable lessons. One of the things I love most about Cozumel is the lack of Governmental over regulation of individual lives. The people and the diving would be first, the food a close second, everything else third.
I never intended to create the Shitstorm this thread turned into. So at risk of starting this thing over again.....I take it La Perlita is back open?
Thanks,
Jay
What gets me is all the "gringo music" being loudly played at so many venues on Cozumel. I guess it's meant to make us to feel at home when we are there, but I don't want to feel at home; if I wanted to feel at home I could have stayed home.
Yes, or at least it was the last week of May when I was there, which was after the incident that sparked this thread.
Musical Imperialism?
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I noticed the same thing on my last trip. Same top 40 songs all over Israel with only a bit of local music. Less US top 40 in Jordan, same in Istanbul. Although Istanbul seemed to run more towards US rap. Nasty ugly rap. Maybe most don't understand the lyrics? I wasn't expecting that....
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It seems to me that usually it is not the restaurant owner who picks out the music, it is the restaurant workers. They are in the restaurant all day and want to listen to what THEY want to hear. They don't much care about the restaurant patrons' choice of music. Often the volume is so high in the dining area so that the people in the kitchen and behind the counter can hear it because they don't have speakers back there and could care less if the people eating in the front can carry on a conversation over it or not.
I once went to breakfast at a roadside diner with my wife. It was around 7AM. There were three tables occupied, and all the patrons at those tables were well over sixty years old. The music in the place was so loud, you could feel the sound waves... and it was hip-hop; not my favorite breakfast melody. I asked the waiter, a fellow around 18, to look at the people dinning in the restaurant and tell me how many of them he thought liked this kind of music, at this volume. He looked around and then apologized. He said the night shift had been listening to that music at that volume and since the morning crew liked it, they just didn't think to change it.
In Mexico, it is the common belief is that very loud music "livens" up a party, encourages people to spend in stores, and tempts people to come into a place that has speakers blasting outside on the curb. Maybe it works if you were born into that bedlam, but I have always found that loud music over cheap speakers puts me out of the mood to shop, eat, or visit a place.
I once went to breakfast at a roadside diner with my wife. It was around 7AM. There were three tables occupied, and all the patrons at those tables were well over sixty years old. The music in the place was so loud, you could feel the sound waves... and it was hip-hop; not my favorite breakfast melody. I asked the waiter, a fellow around 18, to look at the people dinning in the restaurant and tell me how many of them he thought liked this kind of music, at this volume. He looked around and then apologized. He said the night shift had been listening to that music at that volume and since the morning crew liked it, they just didn't think to change it.
In Mexico, it is the common belief is that very loud music "livens" up a party, encourages people to spend in stores, and tempts people to come into a place that has speakers blasting outside on the curb. Maybe it works if you were born into that bedlam, but I have always found that loud music over cheap speakers puts me out of the mood to shop, eat, or visit a place.
Whatever the reason is, I wish they would stop. When I am on Cozumel, I 'd rather hear Mexican and Caribbean music, apropos of where I am, or even just the sound of the waves.
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