Don´t Ask Why!!!!!

I learned this lesson a few years ago now. I have even taught it to others, but I was raised to question things, and sometimes I just can´t help myself. This is especially true now that I am traveling in a place where I can speak to people in their own language -- so the problem isn´t something that is due to a language barrier. However, inevitably when you ask why you get a very unsatisfactory answer. Like today....

I got in a taxi and asked to go to the bus terminal. I know there are supposed to be 2 in La Paz but from what I have heard one is for buses within the city, and the big one is for all buses that leave the city. The taxi brought me to the same terminal that I arrived at 2 days ago -- perfect. Now in South America there are a ton of bus companies and each one has a list of cities that it goes to posted in it´s window. You need to walk around find the company you need and ask how much, when etc... Fairly simple. Except this time I cannot find a sign that says the city I want to go to. Finally near the end of the row I see it. I ask the woman at the desk and she says they don´t actually go there. Now this is where I should have stopped asking questions, but I continued, because that didn´t make sense to me. This is how the converation went:

me: You have a sign that says you go there
woman: yes, but we don´t
me: why do you have the sign?
woman: I don´t know
me: do you know of any other company that goes there
woman: no company goes there
me: (thinking -- my books says it is a popular place so that can´t be true) But it is a vacation town?
woman: yes but to get there you have to take a taxi to another part of town -- all the buses leave from there
me: but this is the bus terminal
woman: yes but buses to there don´t go from here.
me: (resignewd to going somewhere else) Ok then do you go to this other town?
woman: no
me: does any other company go to that town?
woman: no they all leave from the other part of the city.
me: is there a terminal there
woman: a small one
me: why do they leave from the other part of town?
woman: I don´t know

So after that I decided to go to my 3rd city option -- which means that I will go to the Amazon in Peru instead of Bolivia -- since I couldn´t get to where I wanted to go from the main bus terminal in La Paz -- arrgh. Oh well ... I am going to a place that is supposed to be beautiful, and lots of people have told me to go to the Amazon in Peru -- so I guess this stuff happens for a reason.