Papel Higenico Perfumado

Wow. There is a huge bug in my office trying to fly out through the closed window...BONK!....BONK!...oh...sorry...got distracted there for a moment...back to the blog.

So, fancy spanish post title today. I discovered this morning, when we ran out of toilet paper in the bathroom and I had to switch rolls, that my family had purchased purfumed toilet paper. Yes, that's right. Can you think of anything less neccessary in life than perfumed toilet paper? I really can't. This, right here, is what is wrong with Costa Rica. They're spending their time making toilet paper smell better, rather than, say, curbing corruption.

Once again, my Host Dad is coming face to face with CR corruption. Last month he went to Panama and placed some orders for merchandise (Kids clothes) to be shipped here to CR in time for CR Mother's Day (Aug. 15). The merchandise is now two weeks late in getting to him and therefore two weeks late in getting to his customers. Why, you might ask, is it so late? Did they mess up the shipping? Nooooo. The merchandise arrived in Costa Rica on time. It's here in Costa Rica, and Host Dad already paid the taxes and customs duties on it. That's crazy, you might say. What's the hold up? Well, it turns out that the guy with the merchandise is holding out for a "tip". Beacuse Host Dad refused to pay the "tip" (because it will drive up the prices on the merchandise, and...oh yeah... it's wrong) they're refusing to deliver it. The guy wouldn't even take Host Dad's phone calls, so Host Dad had to drive to Heredia the other night to track the guy down.

All I can say is, thank God we have great smelling toilet paper.