Spotted: a Cooler Person

[shoemak38]

Okay the On St John blog did a funny post on cooler people last week

"The much-maligned, oft-ridiculed St. John visitors who load up coolers full of frozen food and bring them down."

Being that I just purchases a new cooler with wheels and a handle for the trip (I have 3 kids what can I say) how much ridicule do the cab drivers give you when they see the cooler. I'm getting a private cab (via Carefree getaways) a gentleman name Ivan to take us to Red Hook.

[Bill in Va]

Yo...I be one of them peoples myself. You won't get any heat from the cabbies. On more than one trip people have asked me whats in the cooler as I pulled it off the luggage belt. When I tell them frozen food they say they didn't know you could do that and what a good idea! Go figure. No cooler on this trip next week cause I have three days on St Thomas with the company but the Nov/Dec one will one on the plane....God bless....Bill

[pipanale]

Me and my Ginormous soft-sided rolling cooler nod approvingly in your direction.

as Bill said...the cabbies don't seem to acre. More bags = more $$ for them.

[Lex]

I think that we tourists just generally seem so peculiar to the taxi drivers that having a cooler or not isn't significant.

[augie]

Ivan is who took us to Red Hook last year. Not coincidentally, We were also staying at a Carefree Getaways villa.

He's a nice and interesting guy, and a good driver.

Have fun!

[RickG]

I've done a similar cooler. It's great when you have kids so that you have a hand free to drag a kid along.

No taunting aloud, coolers are cool!

Cheers, RickG