DID YOU KNOW???
The last number on a license plate corresponds to a day of the week in which you cannot drive. License plates are assigned to cars here, not their owners. (If you sell the car, the plate goes with it.) To control traffic flow, every car is assigned a weekday that it cannot be used.
The slower the water pressure, the hotter the water. Water literally runs over a hot plate to be heated (a device called “the widow maker” -- a bunch of wires connected to the shower head). So every time you take a shower you get to choose, warm water or high water pressure.
Ticos do not wear raincoats. Even though it monsoons here on the reg, you will not see Ticos in rain jackets. So, needless to say, we stick out in our matching blue rain gear...Gringas.
There are shoe stores everywhere. Seriously, there are more shoe stores in this country than I have ever seen in my life!
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