Spending $82,000 on snacks is an actual dream of mine. Christie averaged $1,500 in concessions at each game and didn’t bother keeping receipts to explain the expenses. Christie used his government debit card 58 times at MetLife Stadium, and his office “did not provide any receipts, business reasons or names of individuals entertained, but defended the expense.”Ĭhristie’s office has defended his use of the expense account, but were clearly embarrassed by the revelation that the governor was expensing quite a few beers while watching the Giants and Jets play because it reimbursed the costs associated with the games. Chris Christie spent more than $80,000 of taxpayer money on snacks at NFL games between 20, according to a report from New Jersey Watchdog. Hey, it's still a great country, with beautiful people, but one just has to be a little more cautious than previously.New Jersey Gov. Indeed, most estadounidenses reckon I'm absolutely crazy to even venture into Tijuana as often as I do. Unfortunately, the current problems make such ventures rather more risky than they used to be. Thanks again, JJ, enjoy Mexico! And I trust you're not doing too much 'wandering' off the beaten track whilst you're there.

I guess, when all is said and done, and they've had a good chuckle at my expense, they'll at least understand what I was trying (in my awful mix of schoolboy Castillian, and late-life Mexican, Spanish) to say - namely, thank you, gentlemen, I really appreciate your excellent skills and your wonderful demeanor, etc, etc, blah, blah, blah. Old-fashioned, quaint, probably a bit corny, yes - but then again, that's me. Yes, you're right, I could eliminate it altogether and utilize some alternative phraseology, but the sense of 'I salute you', especially with 'caballeros' thrown in, just evokes (to me, at least) exactly the kind of sentiment I was trying to get across to these two doctors. problem is, unless someone can come up with a different verb for 'to salute s.b.', I'm kind of stuck. Nevertheless, what you say about the double, and possibly more common, usage of the verb 'saludar' is something I hadn't thought about. However, as you can see from my reply today to mentayflor, I wasn't using it as opener to the letter.

Hey, Wandering JJ, it's never too late to inject additional opinion into the discussion. Hopefully, Agró won't mind, because, after all, it does seem almost to come down to a case of personal preference. So, unless I hear differently from more Mexican foreros (thank you for that word!), I shall go with 'les', with all due respect to Agró, of course.

with reference to your 'this is not used the same way in other places' comment, I searched some more threads and found this one, wherein 'Iv93' from Monterrey, Mexico says that both forms are used in Mexico, the 'les' form more commonly in formal written communication, and appears to suggest that it is indeed better for application to, for instance, 'caballeros', which is exactly what I was looking for. However, I also understand why 'los' appears more grammatically correct. And to be honest, since I first learned what little pidgin-Spanish I have in Europe, your 'les' version sounded more familiar to my very limited ear. Yes, thanks, blasita, I do understand your explanation.