Today we were in town looking at rental properties, finding the options that are available, browsing the market. While we were there, it was mentioned that we needed to get gas and the Realtor that was showing us the houses said "Oh you can buy a few liters on the corner."Really? There was no gas station there.
- Costa Rica has a law that Gas-stations must be a certain distance from the ocean so as not to pollute the waters. Great sounding, but time consuming when you need gas. You can't just pull into a corner gas station down the street here, you actually have to plan a special trip, and there are lines any time you go at the one nearest to us. You'll see people in cars, trucks, dirt bikes, ATV's, Scooters, all waiting their turn. Cars are filed in two at a time and you just simply wait your turn to be flagged through by the service worker. They pump your gas, wash your windows and even check the air in your tires if you ask them. (Our nearest gas station is a good 20 minutes and it is up a steep hill that makes for slow progress but great fun coasting down the other side). I've even seen people fill up 2 liter Coke bottles with gasoline. I've never actually seen the stuff put in the cars I've driven till now. It's pink, kind of looks like pink Lemonade, I just hope people don't confuse those coke bottles with something they can actually drink.
So we pull down this street, the Realtor hops out points to our car and talks with one of the people hanging outside. A woman comes over caring a jug with pink liquid (yes it is gasoline) and then using a cut off plastic coke bottle top funnels in the gas. Now that's not something you'd see every day, and of course the convenience was double the cost, but well worth seeing for real once. Now I know what they do with the bottles of gasoline . . .
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