interesting...
so i just survived my first robbery attempt. of course i didnt realize it was a robbery attempt until i told the story and someone made me aware of it. so supposedly a tactic of those masterful paisa thieves is to spit on your arm, get you all creeped out to the point where you wipe it off, and then as youre distracted grab something from your bag. i was walking back from bancolombia bc there was a problem with my account when spit just flew on my arm and i felt a slight tug at my bag, thinking it was just the traffic like always and instinctively grabbing it, again like always. i get to the colombo, walk into the teachers lounge all creeped out bc someone fuckin SPIT on me when one of the teachers explained to me this wonderfully classy tactic. then i checked my bag and to my comfort my ipod and wallet were still there.
so the moral of the story is even though you think your parents are absolutely nuts and paranoid for teaching you to instinctively grab your bag everytime someone passes by you, that one in 348920 chance that theyre right you will be thankful they did.
and for the record i just bathed myself in purell.
posted by syd @ 9:33 AM
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Glad you're ok and that the attempt failed. I agree that is a gross way to try to rob someone...but yay for purell and being able to disinfect so simply when showers aren't an option! I was always so frustrated at how expensive purell was at Carulla in Cartageña!
See those are items not to buy in Colombia. I don't think I used Purell past the first week if ever. Bogota is pretty clean comparably. La costa es sucia.
um i think purell is one of the best investments ever you dirty dirty boy. when youre traveling and you need to wash your hands and theres no soap or when a stranger SPITS on you and you cannot possibly take a shower within the next 5 minutes, what do you use? or do you let the germs fester?
note to self: do not touch arthurs hands :P
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