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I thought maybe you didnt need a prescription, but since I have never bought anything from them, I just told what I knew for sure- that they will give a prescription for anything. But yeah, I know that having a 'prescription' is a joke.
Leche quemada is good.
But I've never needed a prescription. I just go right in and say what I need.
Manny, Laredo is where all the crap is going on also in Matamoros (really every border town), but I took my mom to Laredo last weekend and it was fine. The stuff happens in the non tourist section, but I'll be lying if I say I didn't think abou it.
I thought maybe you didnt need a prescription, but since I have never bought anything from them, I just told what I knew for sure- that they will give a prescription for anything. But yeah, I know that having a 'prescription' is a joke.
Those Aztec chess sets are bad ass! The ones made out of onyx. If you like chess get one of those. A few years ago I bought a set of those really thick drinking glasses. The ones where you see a few air bubbles in the glass with the blue rim.
You can always get a lucha libre style wrestling mask.
Interesting. This may be a stupid question but, I'm guessing those "drugs" are counterfeit? And if so, wouldn't you be afraid to take them? Sure they say "Ambien" but how do you know that's what's really in it and that it wasn't tampered with?
Besides, how much $$$ are they selling it for down there anyways?
Oh and uh, can you bring me back a sombrero, Manny?
I have a chess board I got in Progresso but the pieces are lost. It would be a good time to replace them. Thanks for the idea.
I've never been, but I want to go. I think we would all be okay if we went in a big group. ROAD TRIP!!! Plus, if things got tough, you could always sell me for some quick cash. I had some friends who thought of selling me in Mexico for some venture capital, then they realized they could get more for me in Japan.
You guys are welcome to come with us, but we will probably be going down during the day during the work week so you would have to play hookie.
Playing hookie is fun, though. Especially when it involves driving to another country to purchase booze and drugs!
My mom took a trip to Nuevo Laredo about 2 months ago, here's what she got:
drugs (topamax, keppra, codiene & lopressor)
alcohol - grey goose vodka, glen scotia single malt, and a few obligatory bottles of tequila)
furniture - a hand carved desk top (she bargained for just the top before the guy was finished) and one of those clay outdoor firepit thingys for the patio (chimera??)
dental work - replaced a crown and 2 old old fillings.
2 cases of coca-cola i nthe glass bottles
a new possibly fakey Dooney & Burke purse
thi was her 3rd trip to Mexico but it was the 1st time she ever really shopped there. She had planned it for awhile.
You should buy a new car.
Besides, how much $$$ are they selling it for down there anyways?
I've taken drugs from mexico and they ar the real thing. At least they were the real thing in that they did what I expected them to do to me but with out hte usual side effects - so maybe there is something in there that shouldn't be.
personally i thin kthe FDA has got america scared like 4 yr olds over stuff that doesn;t have the "fda" stamp on it. I don;t trust the FDA. Especially over this whole canadian drug thing.
Plus - if they were really out to "protect" us - how come tobacco (1000's die yearly) is legal but they go after stevia (pulled as a food priduct but OK as a supplement) and ephedrine (killed a total of 8 people who used it incorrectly) like they are devil's spawn??
Your friends would do that???
Anyway, I'll be in Mexico all of next week... in the beautiful city of León Guanajuato.
http://www.leonmex.com/sfotos.cfm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le%C3%B3n,_Guanajuato
There's no reason to be afraid unless you go lookin' for trouble.
Go to direct to the pharmacy and tell them what you want. If they tell you that you need a prescription, ask them where to get one. They'll point you somewhere that is a block or two away and you can get your "prescription" for about $10.
If they try to charge you significantly more (which isn't likely since everyone knows the deal down there), tell them you where just trying to save the four block walk to the "doctor" your family regularly uses to pick up your $10 prescriptions but you'll go down there if you need to. They'll hand it over. $10 for scribbling is a good deal for them.
Been a while since I picked up anything down there but when you cross, keep going down the main drag and stop at the first pharmacy on your right side (could be the second one). Should be a place mid-block with a relatively narrow storefront but the store is deep.
There is a doctors office immediately next door (the office should be on the second floor). Walk up the stairs, tell them you need a prescription and they'll open up a book that looks like a menu. Just tell them what you want. The receptionist/nurse writes it up right there and out you go.
As far as non-pharmaceuticals, Mexico isn't the shoppers paradise it used to be. Everything is fairly expensive, especially in the first few blocks from the border. My girl has been bugging me to go down there so we'll probably go pickup some mexican glassware and the colorful plates she likes.
Other than liquor, that is exactly what the best reason to go there is. Mexican arts and crafts, pottery, glassware, tile, mirrors, etc.
I used to like spending the night on the US side and partying at the clubs in NL but its a little different these days. We'll probably do the day trip and throw in some food and liberal drinking here and there.
Last edited by Notorious H.O.P.; 07-25-2006 at 10:10 AM.
How about hookers?
KIDDING!
Seriously, what's worth economizing on I guess would be Mexican brands of liquor, such as tequila. Careful with prescription drugs for counterfeits and risking inspection by U.S. Border Patrol. Otherwise buy hand-woven crafts, that sort of stuff...you might also find cheap glass and silver wares.
Why do I have the feeling Manny's going to be calling one of us to bail him out of the Border Patrol checkpoint?
I'm interested in going, Manny.
Let me know!
When we went to Nuevo Laredo the guys bought Cuban cigars. That's just my two cents.
We always heard you could find one in Juarez, so one night when I was in college my buddies and I set out in search of the mythical "show of the donkey".
We hired a cab driver named Pedro who drove us down into the innards of the city. We were taken to probably 10 different establishments of ill-repute. Each stop had it's own interesting adventure, but alas, no donkey show.
What usually happened was that we'd set Pedro up at the bar with some beer (he was nice enough to always wait for us, and I think he was having too much fun fvcking with us to abandon us in the middle of nowhere). The four of us would then be shown into a room with the lights dimmed and either a "nurse" or one or two really scary pros utes were usually thrown in with us. We'd explain that we weren't there for the ladies unless one of them was getting jiggy with a horse. They'd say "Oh, we have donkey show, you wait." Wait we would do, but no show. They'd parade a few more hookers into our room, and although a few looked like the illigitimate children of Mr. Ed, we never saw a women getting screwed by a donkey.
I'll never forget my buddy Z holding a bunch of cash in his fist over his head as this ultra-skanky gal is jumping up trying to grab the money. He just keeps repeating "A LIVE FARM ANIMAL...we want to see A LIVE FARM ANIMAL!!" Cracked me up! As we left one fine establishment we had to grab Pedro by the collar and yank him out with us as we were being chased by a bouncer with a bat. Luckily there were four of us (five counting Pedro) and all of us were capable of holding our own in a confrontational situation, otherwise it could have gotten ugly a couple of times.
Long story short...we never found a donkey show. We did, however, find the inside of a bunch of houses throughout Juarez, Mexico, found a drunk cabbie named Pedro, found our way into half a dozen brawls and saw a lifetime's worth or scary ladies of the evening.
The night of the Donkey Quest ranks in my top 10 most fun nights all-time.
When i go to mexico i usually bring back Crabs.. but that's just me
I agree with Hector, those really heavy drinking glasses with the bubbles rock! Just be careful if you happen to buy dinner plates, some of them that are decorated use lead paint.
A Volkswagon Beetle.
You could buy her->
A LIVE FARM ANIMAL...I just want to see A LIVE FARM ANIMAL DAMNIT!!!You could buy her->
You could buy her->
I thought you rented her by the hour.
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