One of the most interesting activities here in the Dominican Republic is that there are salesmen on all the main street corners offering you things or services from the comfort of your car. Sometimes, they are a little aggressive and tap on your window trying to get you to notice them (when you are looking the other way on purpose!) or they spray your windshield with water to give it a wash whether you've agree to it or not. These are few of the ones that we've caught photos of, but we're missing the men selling toilet paper, new wiper blades (and they'll even put them on for you if there's time before the light changes!), little black garbage bags, cold bottles of water, and lots of fruit - mangoes, pineapples, avocadoes, or bananas. When it's a little colder, we have seen bags of fresh corn and freshly steamed batatas (which are sort of like potatoes.) I really admire these folks for trying to do their best to earn a few pesos to feed their families. They aren't begging and are selling things that people seem to want to buy.
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Here's the hat man - can you see the ones in his right hand,
plus the two on his head? |
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| Fresh, and delicious, tree-ripened pineapple |
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Cookies - notice that he has them in a sealed container to keep
them sanitary?? |
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| More sweets |
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Here's the guy attacking the windshield - they typically have
a bottle of water and a squeegy - no soap |
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| Mm - some fresh oranges |
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| Don't you need a cell phone charger? |
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| Or better yet, a new cover for your phone? |
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| Or a duster for your high ceilings? |
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Two for one - this man's selling papers and also
menthol cubes that people really like for asthma |
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A variety of nuts in little bags - no way to tell if they
were packaged in a FDA approved kitchen... |
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Lots of cans with slits to save your money in-
we presume that you have to cut open the can to get in |
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| First time we've ever seen this - he's trying to sell a music box |
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| And, can you believe these beautiful flowers? |
This post cracked me up--especially the dusters and the fact that they will put on the wipers if there's time before the light changes. And people actually buy that stuff??
ReplyDeleteYes - that's the amazing thing. But we don't see it very often, so I can't imagine their actually feeding their families. Lots of times we give 10 pesos to the little boys trying to wash our windows when it's a rainy day, and we wouldn't get them washed (they also do a lousy job most of the time, but we don't want to ruin their initiative).
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