The Barato Bumbling Bohemians

Yeah, Baby...those are real Cohibas!

First off, if you don't know what barato means...it means cheap. I'm talking cheap as in will walk a mile to save a peso, put three people in a room to save a few pesos, ride second-class buses because of the cost of a more expensive ADO ticket...you get the drift. 

So we get up this morning and recover from our bumbling night of Terry taking the wrong backpack off the bus, we didn't drink much last night because David dropped the two fifths of whiskey he had purchased duty-free at Houston Hobby, painstakingly carried through the CUN airport to the bus, on the bus, off the bus where the sack slipped through his fingers and both bottles shattered on the concreto while Terry was getting the wrong backpack off the bus. If you could have seen the luggage handler's face when he smelled that whiskey but could do nothing more than watch the puddle of liquid gold get bigger and bigger on the floor. It was priceless!

But this morning was different! We got a fairly good few hours of sleep even though the A/C in our room wasn't working. Can't have everything at this price, right? We ate a great breakfast and I headed back to the room for, you know, morning stuff. I turned these two barato bumbling Bohemians loose to go check out the cigars in a cigar shop. They were feeling full of machismo when we met back up because they had made the deal of the century on Cohiba cigars...not knock-offs, but real Cohibas from a nice humidor. They had each spent about $4USD/cigar...or $890/cigar in pesos. You do the math!!!

We're walking down Avenida Quinta and they're feeling all cocky showing me their Cohibas. We go a few blocks and all of a sudden David, the Chemical Engineer/teacher of college students realizes the mistake. These two barato, bumbling Bohemians just spent about $40USD each on a cigar!!! 

What started out as a nice morning just went south...they transitioned from being barato Bohemians to two guys throwing money around like it was beach sand. It's been about 3 hours since this happened and they are still trying to figure out how two smart, tight Bohemians made this mistake. I think it's cool because I'm pretty sure I'll get to go shopping and buy whatever I want just because they think they can give me "hush money" and I won't tell the world about their blunder!