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[libertythor]

...When you are starving and everything from Hamburgers to Tamales is available to you within a short distance.

Your washing machine breaks down and 3 blocks from your house you find someone to fix it for 25 bucks or sometimes less depending on the problem.

Wake up for work or class......a car drives by..."Tamales...Champurrado...Tamales de Res...rajas con queso...piña"

The neighbors tell you who are the trouble makers...

Compare that to San Diego ...Mc Donalds...fusion restaurant..sometimes at a distance.

Washing machine repair....most people just throw it out over en el otro
lado.

Okay...have at it everyone...post your positive Tijuana moments.

[Chiquito]

My absolute best TJ moment was my wedding. The worst moments came in my marriage.

[the.ronin]

Isn't there already a what-I-like thread?

[libertythor]

Yes.....but these are more general situations.

Heres one: Seeing the Shrek 3 movie 18 days before it comes out in the theater by purchasing the DVD at the sobreruedas.

[TJDave]

Yes.....but these are more general situations.

Heres one: Seeing the Shrek 3 movie 18 days before it comes out in the theater by purchasing the DVD at the sobreruedas.

Is your name RYU???

[libertythor]

nope...but I am sure many on this board are guilty of buying unauthorized movies at the local flea markets.

Warner Bros. complained recently that someone at the Mexican Copyright Office was leaking movies and scripts to the black market. LOL It is amazing how quickly the copies make their way from DF to the market stalls of teenagers in Tijuana that sell the movies.

[libertythor]

Ordering a few tacos at a taqueria in Playas and receiving a ton of free boiled beans with salsa, grilled onions, radishes, and all the good fixings.

[libertythor]

A new record was set yesterday for Tijuanablog! The most people on the site at one time! Another good Tijuana moment.

[Ryu]

Yes.....but these are more general situations.

Heres one: Seeing the Shrek 3 movie 18 days before it comes out in the theater by purchasing the DVD at the sobreruedas.

Is your name RYU???

GENIUSS!

[George Costanza]

47 people. Wow not to shabby
Wait to we get the website up and running. I am working on the backframe now. I hope to have the skeleton up by July sometime!

Let's see good tijuana moments for this week? No wait at the border this week so far for me. I found 20 Pesos and there is a new Irish Pub across from Plaza Rio!

[ItsJustBeachie]

My first day here was somewhere around March 5 last year. It was raining and this wonderful man at the Calimax held an umbrella over my head and walked me to my car and loaded my groceries. Since then, everytime he sees me, he takes my car keys, opens the trunk, puts the groceries in (and the boxer babes adore him and poke their heads out the back (VW trunk), and opens the driver door for me. That was such a feel good as I had my first experience in a Mexican grocery and knew almost no Spanish. Almost cried in the aisles... LOL...

Then I got home and was unloading the car and suddenly there is this loudpeaker with a guy announcing something over and over again. Having grown up in the Cold War period, and having to hear the siren tested once each day at noon, and here comes this car with a man announcing something I couldn't understand, I could only figure at that time that Bush had decided to bomb Baja and this man was going through the neighborhoods warning everyone. I ran out into the street and fortunately my across the street neighbor was bilingual and told me he was selling tamales, etc.

Then came the fish...I had a fish pond at the house I was renting and didn't know there was a difference between live swimming fish and caught cooked fish so I was talking to the same neighbor who had a fountain in front of her house and said she should put some pescado in the water...
then the moment of truth came and my daughter and I were in Blockbuster and she wanted to rent "Big Fish." I figured I would impress her and walked up to the counter and asked if they had "Pescado Grande.".....

Beachie

[Ryu]

Nice memories Beachie.

[Miggiesmallz- TEXMEX]

and here comes this car with a man announcing something I couldn't understand

"Tamales, Churros Champurrado..... Tamales de hoja de platano"

I hear this guy all the time, i wonder if he uses a recording...

[Miggiesmallz- TEXMEX]

My funny moment was when my girlfriend and I were driving in the Centro area. We come up to a SEMAFORO, stop light, when all of the sudden a parade commences up Constitucion without warning and the traffic behind us started piling up. SO WE WERE STUCK AT THE TRAFFIC LIGHT for 15 minutes waiting for this impromptu parade to finish. Everyone stuck behind us was angirly honking. This was one of my girls first times in TJ. We just sat back and laughed as the parade slowly passed us because she had never seen anything so random like that in her life.

[ItsJustBeachie]

Chiquito: My absolute best TJ moment was my wedding. The worst moments came in my marriage.

You´ve got that one right, Chiquito but moving to TJ made post-divorce easier. I´m not worth a two and a half hour wait on a Sunday for the ex to cross the border with our 16yo. So, she gets to ride Amtrak to Irvine, and he keeps his nose out of my private life. (Is he paying Mungo Bungo instead to substitute her nose for his???? LOLOL...actually we are doing well in our relationship nowadays...only cost him $500,000 in attorneys fees and thank the Goddess I do family law...)

Libertythor: but I am sure many on this board are guilty of buying unauthorized movies at the local flea markets.

Liberty, I wait for those 25% off coupons from Borders Books and by my DVD´s there or should I say, I get my Andre Rieu fix with the 25% off coupons from Borders? Heck, a middle aged gringa can lust right? Especially when he looks like ... well ... andrerieu.com.

Ryu; Nice memories Beachie.

Yes, Ryu, and the reasons I came back. Heard you were in a committed relationship. She´s lucky.

Miggies: a parade commences up Constitucion without warning

Was that the day when the prostitutes marched to City Hall and threatened to strip on the steps if the Mayor didn´t listen to them?

Beachie

[libertythor]

Was that the day when the prostitutes marched to City Hall and threatened to strip on the steps if the Mayor didn´t listen to them?

If that happened under the Hank administration, he would have enjoyed his "Tiger Penis Clamato" while watching.

[libertythor]

When Tijuanablog.com gets this lively.

[sumchic]

getting lost in tj & then finding my way back to where I should be...only did that 2 times this week..but after all said & done I did find a costco now!

of course finding this forum this week was great too!!

[the.ronin]

getting lost in tj & then finding my way back to where I should be...only did that 2 times this week..but after all said & done I did find a costco now!

Haha I remember stumbling out of a restaurant by Sanborns on Revolucion drunk of my ass after the Mexico / Argentina game and trying to find my way to Plaza Rio to meet up with my girlfriend. I caught a glimpse of the centuro cultural ball and just followed that.

[ItsJustBeachie]

All you have to do when you give someone directions is go that away past the taco stand...then you'll see a cart selling hamburguesas. You don't want to turn there...you want to go to the stand that sells hamburguesas AND hotdogs and turn left...

Beachie