May I have another napkin please?

I think, by far, the most disappointing item in Costa Rica has to be the napkins. Why so much hate for the napkins in this country you ask??? Well……let’s just say that some brilliant person here in Costa Rica has somehow developed a method to shave/produce paper so damn thin…….that in order to wipe your damn face off….it takes at least 30 napkins. These things are so thin……that when I go to grab one…..at least 5 others stick to my hand. When I first got to Costa Rica…….I made the mistake of trying drying my face off with these useless articles…..in the end, the only thing I accomplished was spreading my face with little bits of wet paper….it looked as if I just finished shaving and cut the hell out of my face. To make matters worse….when I go to a restaurant…..they have anywhere from 10-15 napkins on the table. COME ON….it takes that many just to dry my beer off. Every time I ask for more napkins……they bring another 10….never more. Because of this, during every meal, there is this napkin dance going on between the waiter/waitress and I. The other night….I was going to get ½ a chicken for dinner……but I started to think about the sheer mass of napkins it would have taken to make it through the meal……..and decided that it was highly probable that they staff would be pissed before the end of my meal. Before I ordered……I found myself standing at the urinal eyeing the toilet paper wondering if it was thicker than the fucking piece of napkin stuck to my lip……..thank god I did not order the chicken.

Pura Vida……