Hustle Stories

It wasn't the look on her face that told me I was the sucker. It wasn't the confident way she stood with her custom pool cue. It wasn't even this remarkable room dedicated to billiards that took my breath away when I walked in. It was when she challenged me to a game of Strip Pool. Unable to speak, I nodded my acceptance.  She looked me up and down and decided I needed a handicap — so she took off her dress.That's when I...

Here is a strange but true story. Visitors to Jamaica are always intrigued by the black market system. US dollars are traded for Jamaican dollars over and above the bank rate. Just about anything you want can be procured for a price. It isn't all bad, sometimes it is done to circumvent the greedy middle man; and in most cases that would be the government, with its high import taxes on goods and services. Bartering was a w...