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Rainy day and a new cell phone
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Today it rained all day.
I did nothing.
Spent the whole day in The Smoking Bull, downloading podcasts to listen to at night in my hotel room.
I did buy a new sim card for my phone that lets me call the states for $0.12 a min. And I can call direct no pin codes. Then I had to get my phone unlocked so it would read the new sim card. I took the new phone I got when I arrived and to the guy at the phone bodega on the Nieuwendijk (the shopping street) near the 420 cafe. I ask can this phone be unlocked he takes it says yes and disappears with my phone upstairs. Now I have no idea how much he is going to charge me but I have learned that if it sounds to high (I am expecting 10-20 euro)just tell the guy he is to high and many times they will come down. I find that sometimes in the bakery the price goes up 50 cents and I always challenge the chick and she backs down. So this guy is gone for 20 min. Now this is HOLLAND if the people are not Dutch then they act DUTCH and speed is not something that comes with service. He then comes back downstairs and hands me my phone and says it can't be done...Know I thought this was the case as I had googled how to unlock this phone and everything I read said this phone is not un lockable...I knew my old phone was un lockable and that's why I bought the sim card....I asked how late they were open as I was going to go get the old phone and return he said 10pm I then ask how much? he says all phones 15 euro. PERFECT I thought and headed back to the hotel to retrieve my phone. As I get to the Grasshoper I see two guys struggling with each other and a cute blonde with her hands on her cheeks freaking out. The tall thin guy is BLASTED, can hardly stand up and the shorter guy is trying to get the drunk guy to fight. now this fat guy comes up and tries to break it up, only to get clocked by the tall guy ....and the fight was on...I watched this for 15 min at least...The drunk guy would land some good blows and the short guy would grab him and the fat guy would try to pull them apart and the girl kept crying....now I'm thinking that here is a good chance to get to know the girl. The girl decides that she needs to get involved in the fight...Not a good idea, I come to figure out the the tall guy is here boyfriend...she tries to get between the boyfriend and the short guy and the boyfriend clocks her...At this point I am PISSED that I did not take my video camera with me. I left my bag with a buddy in the 420 Cafe, cause it was raining, oh yeah did I mention I was standing in the pouring rain watching....When this girl got hit she spun around and fell to the ground.....I walked over to see that she had a bloody nose....That ended my interest in her...I don't do body fluid exchange, and a bloody nose on a crying girl is messy.......now these three guys are also rolling around on the ground and stumbling all over...Now in the distance I see two Dutch police officers heading toward this fight...Two female cops.....Now I have dreams about Dutch Policewomen, but this blog is not the place for those stories.......But I would not fuck with any female dutch cop....They are tough, HOT and most have ponytales.......but if they say move I won't be around long enough to here where to.......They walk right up to these three guys each cop lifts one guy and the tall drunk guy falls to the ground as nobody is holding him up....They ask what's going on and they then come to realize that these people all know each other....and the girl walks over to explain that they just wanted the boyfriend to go back to the hotel.....as the cops are talking to the girl , the fat guy and the short guy....the tall drunk guy get up and wabbles and the falls head first into a cab parked on the side of the road.........The cabbies gets out and starts screaming and then the cops tell the girl and 2 guys they better carry their buddy back to the hotel before he ends up in a Dutch jail........Now I stood and watched this for a good 20 min....and now had to hustle to get to the phone place.....% min after I handed the guy my phone I could call the states for 12 euro cents a min, which is very cheap......Then we went a Brazillian-Argentinean steak restaurant called Iguazu. Next to the Dolphin......Well I am being tossed out of the Dolphin so I need to run..
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