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Ok world travelers lets hear some stories.
When i went to visit a friend in Louisiana, he invited me to go on a alligator hunting trip. I had never done any hunting before let alone alligator hunting. It was muddy and pretty exciting. But the meat was pretty gross.
I was with my Mom and Grandparents in Portugal when I was 6. We were walking with my granddad on the waterfront, when we noticed a big crowd. Curiously, we went to look what's all about, and there on the street was a young woman lying dead in a pile of blood, stabbed. Ok, not so nice. Granddad pulled my arm and we got out of there.
In Germany a person was feeling sick and too bad in a public place and nobody wanted to help her.
In China in a train station a little girl was peeing in a bin helped by her mum, a toilet was 5 metres away. Nobody seemed surprised. In China I saw a lot of people spitting everywhere too.
I was out partying on New Year's Eve in Alexandria, Egypt a few decades ago with my brother and some British girls when this crazy Egyptian guy started hassling the girls. This wasn't the first time Western females we knew received unwanted attention from Egyptian men, but usually it was just talk or whistling. Thus guy was much more serious and just would not leave us alone The girls were not shrinking violets so they gave as good as they got, which enraged him. As I tried to whisk the girls away, the guy grabbed a rock and hit my brother on the head with it. Fortunately he was not seriously hurt, but I had to carry him back to our parent's flat. The following day, we assembled a group of American and British business people and embassy officials to go to the police and demand action. Within an hour, the police had brought him in. There was lots of shouting which unfortunately I could not understand. Apparently he accused the girls of being prostitutes and my brother and I their pimps. Later we even heard heard what sounded like whipping and screaming. We spent the next two days in various government offices telling our story. Seeing this side of Egypt it was quite apparent to us why Egypt is such an unsuccessful country. The workers barely worked at all and nobody seemed to be in charge. The whole thing was quite surreal.
I was kinda drunk sitting at a upstair bar in Roppongi, Tokyo at age 20, a really drunk Japanese lady in her early-60's comes to sit next to me puts my zipper down and start giving me a bj. I let her go on for like 10 seconds before i said i don't want to have problems with the bar owner (huge Nigerian dude) so i asked her to stop, she stands up asking me to follow her outside, i said no not interested and then she left.
I was kinda drunk sitting at a upstair bar in Roppongi, Tokyo at age 20, a really drunk Japanese lady in her early-60's comes to sit next to me puts my zipper down and start giving me a bj. I let her go on for like 10 seconds before i said i don't want to have problems with the bar owner (huge Nigerian dude) so i asked her to stop, she stands up asking me to follow her outside, i said no not interested and then she left.
The worst was on a train from France to Spain. We were sitting next to some American boys we had met. They decided to take their shoes off to sleep and their feet smelled soooo bad that it kept us awake. I lit some incense and the combination of smells created a stink bomb that spread throughout the whole cart and woke everyone up! Lol
Being stuck on a highway for hours in Spain due to an ETA car bomb.
Being told by a musician in Paris to get up and dance when he started playing La Bamba. I was even handed a hat. Lol
Having a 1 hour conversation in Spanish with an African in Portugal.
Seeing David Hasselhoff pictures, trinkets, everything in German stores and even gas stations. That was the most bizarre of all. Lol
Sleeping 700 metres from the Concorde crash site the day after it happened.
I took the train overnight from the South of France, and went directly to the airport. I had no idea the crash had happened the previous evening.
I was flying on a friends pass and couldn't catch a flight out that day, so I booked at hotel near the airport. On the shuttle that dropped me off at the hotel, I saw a bank of about 100 photographers and camera crews. Asking what was going on, I was told about the crash.
When I got to my hotel, I had the TV news on and it was of course all about the crash. They showed a bank of trees and bushes the looked very much what my view was.
Later I talked to a guy from Montreal who said the crash site was just beyond those trees and that he and his wife saw the plane fly right over our hotel. His wife was terrified to fly out because of that.
Well she wasn't really that bad looking for her age
I seriously doubt it was a woman.
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