... in response to Re: I guess I was just lucky., posted by Cali vet on May 5, 2003A 'Gasolinera' is a women who is only interested in getting what she can from a guy. I'm not sure what the origin of the term is but if you ask someone from Cali they'll know what you mean.
I had to use a translator to get the English word for 'chismes' which was gadgets. I guess you're asking how the intro service (Latin Connection) worked.
First let me say Latin Connections is out of business. Someone on this board had asked about Ed Beckwith. He got tired of all the competition and felt he couldn't make any money so he got out of the business. I assume he is still living in Palm Beach, Fl with his Cali wife and daughter who should be about 6 by now.
He did make a transistion of sorts of his business into another web site called
http://www.aspiring-latin-models-inc.com/
with a former customer of Latin Connections.
As for my dealing with the intro service I really didn't have that much contact with them.
I first read about another guy's experience with Latin Connections and the ladies he had met. I exchanged a couple emails with him and he affirmed that it was all real.
I joined Latin Connections on the internet after talking to Ed on the phone. That was on a Monday and by Thursday I was in Cali. I was only going to be there until early Monday morning.
My intentions were to mainly see how things worked and if it was legit I would return. They had invited about a dozen ladies to meet me and the 8 othe guys who had come down that night. As things wound down that night I asked three of ladies if they wanted to go dancing. One had a car and two of them spoke some English.
The one who didn't speak English took an interest in me and asked me if we could go out the next night. I said OK even though I was only moderately interested in her.
The next day (Friday) I went to the office and started going through the notebooks of eligible ladies. I found two I wanted to meet and told one of the office girls who they were and would she try to arrange introductions for me, one on Saturday and one on Sunday.
That night I took my date to dinner and we then met up with the rest of the group at a disco. About midnight my date was fading out, from the wine I assumed, and her friend said we and she and her date were leaving. We only went about 1/2 mile and we pulled over. My date started to get out and I asked the driver where she was going. She replied, "She's going to take a taxi home and I'm taking you and Robert back to your hotel."
Well since it was only midnight on a Friday and things were just getting started and I was only going to be in town for two more days it took me about 10 seconds to decide to get a taxi back to the disco.
I walked in, sat down at the table where all the American guys and Cali girls from the agency were sitting and within 2 seconds a beauty across the table from me jumped up and said, "You came back, would you like to dance with me?"
Now I may be slow but I'm not stupid. I said yes and needless to say the rest is history.
Later that night when we dropped Robert off at the Latin Connection's office (he was staying in one of their rooms) I went to the office and took my request sheet. I found out the next day that of the two girls I wanted to meet one was on vacation and they couldn't reach the other one.
As it worked out I never needed to meet anyone else.
My new found love met me there the next evening and we went to dinner and met up with the crowd at the disco again.
The next day was the 4th of July. We met at my hotel and went to the zoo. We then ended up at the Latin Connection's office for the end of a cook-out. We then went to my hotel to spend some time together. I put her in a taxi at midnight and I went to bed only to rise at 5AM for my flight back to the USA.
The only other time I was in the Latin Connection's office was during my Labor Day visit when we dropped in just to say hello to the office manager who my future wife had know for a couple years.
So although my experience with the agency was brief I can say they were legit, I saw numerous photos and girls come and go and a professional photographer taking their photos for the notebooks.
I don't know if some of the claims of 'hundreds of girls' at the parties but my wife said she went to one once at the InterContinental Hotel in Cali and she said there really were a few hundred there all dressed up and all looking great.
They did have a small beauty contest for about a dozen of us on Saturday afternoon. There were about 20 girls in the contest and about another 20 watching. I found one I really would have liked to meet but it was ending about the time I had to rush back to the hotel to get ready for my date with my new love so I never followed through with talking to her.
I couldn't figure out how to post any photos here but anyone who sends me an email will get some:
wally3333@earthlink.net