"Cabo San Lucas: The long arm of L.A. " a Cabo San Lucas Travel Page by LolaSanFrancisco

I planned this 3-night 4-day get a away, with round trip air, round trip transfers and condo for about $350.00 per person. I had my own little condo and my two gay buddies had another. We were all set to live it up in Mexico and were very much looking forward to it. It was the first trip to Mexico for all of us.

When we got off the plane in the airport (or as I like to call it the plane station), I knew this was a weird place. First off, I wanted to smoke. I saw a cop smoking so I lit up. He came over and told me to put it out. Ok…?

Then we jumped in our van and drove the half hour to Cabo, and all along the way (they call it the Corridor) we saw little crosses with flowers, apparently loads of people somehow die on the very flat and very straight road.

Not minding the signs of death in the Corridor, we went and rented scooters at the only shop in town. Now, I’m ***ing tricky as hell, and I didn’t have a driver’s license. So when the guy wanted my license, I calmly handed over my California ID, batted my eyes, and adjusted my top to show a little more cleavage then when I walked in. This did the trick nicely. He handed me my keys and gave me a look like: “yeah, that’ll work.”

And off we went to Me Casa Su Casa (See my restaurant review). After eating too much and drinking my weight, we popped on the scoots and took off. I let one of my fags go first. Not a good idea, because he lead us down a road with a cop in a car at the end.

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Moral of the story: No morals.

The cop stopped us and tried to tell him that we were going down a one-way street. To this, ding bat started to argue. I was standing quietly (for once) over to the side, looking at what could be a very big problem. When out of the blue a van comes tearing around the corner and out pops Boob Boy from the scooter shop and starts, as nice as can be, talking in Spanish. The cop nods and Boob Boy walks over to me and says: “Ok, the fine for this is $20.00 per person, but this police man says that he can take it in for you.” In other words, $20.00 each and were out of there. Done deal. We did, and we were off in a flash.

So if you get the honor of being “detained” by a cop, simply ask how much the fine would be, and if they would be so kind as to bring it in for you. There is room for negotiations in the price. But remember, be very nice, and polite, this is how it works in Mexico.