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(More customer reviews)One thing I should mention right off the bat: this outfit does NOT come with the two bottles of tequila that are pictured. You must buy those separately. I found that out the hard way.
Anyhow, I purchased this item in preparation for a trip to Mexico. My family invited me to their annual Cancun trip for the first time since my Thanksgiving "incident" a few years back. (No need to explain further on that one: let's just say the kitchen table's been replaced and the dog survived.) I told them I'd gone clean since then, and wanted to "dress to impress" on our trip.
Also, I wanted to blend in and not look like a total American tourist. I found this outfit and it was the perfect solution. It looked just like the Mexicans I'd seen on cartoons and tortilla packages, so I had to get it.
Little did I know my Mexico outfit would not be a hit with everybody. First off, the security folks at Kansas City Airport were real jerks about it. I swear it was against my constitutional rights for them to make me take off the gun holster (with NO GUNS, even) and poncho, then strip search me in a dark room.
They made me put the whole outfit in my suitcase, and in the process took all my tequila. When I finally made it to Cancun, I had to wait 2 hours for my suitcase to show up. My family was already getting annoyed with me, I could tell.
I really wanted to show them how much I'd changed and learned to plan ahead. So I wore my Mexican outfit to dinner the very first night. But did they show their appreciation for my mature wardrobe decision? No - they just laughed, and Uncle Pete kept calling me "Paco" for the rest of the night. Some people just don't get it.
Whenever our waiter, who happened to be a true Mexican named Miguel, came over, I would wink and say something in Spanish. Like "Yo quiero tequila" or "Donde esta el bano?" That way he knew I was one of him, not one of "them" (a.k.a. my stupid tourist family).
Miguel would just smile and laugh back with me. Every now and then I'd see him pointing me out to the other Mexican staffers and smiling, probably to let them know that I was a real local and not some lame-o tourist.
I'd say I got a real good reaction with my Mexican outfit. Even though all the Americans at the pool would laugh at me, I blended in just fine with the locals. They even had nicknames for me, like "gringo" and "vendejo".
I even got to take part in a traditional Mexican ritual where a bunch of guys tied me up on the beach, buried me in the sand up to my neck, and had me watch the tide roll in. I guess that's just how they "catch waves" in Mexico! I felt like I really belonged then.
However, the guys hid my outfit and I couldn't finish the part of the game where I have to find it, since I was in the hospital with water poisoning and a collapsed lung. Oh well, as they say in Mexico, "Buenos Nachos!"
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