My first gun experience
Trip Start
Oct 19, 2007
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Ongoing
Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil
Thursday, December 13, 2007
To person who said I was on the prowl and if I talk to any of these girls. Well, hereīs the thing, Iīm no more on the prowl then any other guy who goes out in any city in any country in the world. The thing is I am completely by myself in a strange country and the more people I meet the better. I am a very social person and I like talking and hanging out with people and if I donīt make the first move 90% of the time then I wonīt meet anyone. I have no options, I have to meet people, otherwise Iīll be by myself for 7 months. And here`s the other thing, it`s much much easier to meet girls than to meet guys. You go up to a couple girls on the beach, in a bar and start talking to them, it`s normal, that`s what guys do. Go up to a couple of dudes on the beach and start talking to them, well, it`s not quite as normal. Although I must admit it`s pretty easy to make friends with random dudes here, much more so than in America. And another thing for girls out there, if you have a friend who is a guy and you think you are best buddies, take it from me, 99% of the time that great guy friend who you can share anything with wants to fuck the shit out of you. Seriously, he does. Now, your friendship may be totally legit, I`m not saying he doesn`t care about you or your friendship isn`t on the level, it usually is, but I`m also telling you that if you went up to him and said, you know what, I really need to get laid, would you stab me? I guarantee you he will and that he has wanted to since the moment you met. Fine, don`t believe me, live in ignorance.
Oh, and no for the most part I don`t talk to any of the girls I have met. I still talk to the two Swedes, Marta and Malin and like I said, I think we`ll probably be life long friends. I will also stay in touch with Cleiber and Sid. Other than that I don`t really plan on staying friends with anyone else as of now. You know how it is, you send a couple of emails and the time between them get longer and longer and then you just stop keeping in touch.
Beans, hah, yeah I remember that night, one of your finer Frank moments. I seem to remember being at Glascotts and you picking up people and swinging them around in which said people`s feet would kick other patrons in the bar but nobody did shit because I was there with you and they didn`t want to catch a beat down, OK; it was because you are like 7 feet tall. Good times.
BTW - concerning my last entry - why would Luiza not let me see her face before our date or whatever, I mean wouldnīt it be better just to lay all your cards on the table. Talk bout false advertising, I felt like I had a date with Milli Vanilli.
Ok, back to blog.
Super nice day today, go to beach as usual. My roomates, the two English dudes decide to lay in the sun for 6 hours with like 5 spf sunblock and they get completely fried. They are more fried than Roger Waters from Pink Floyd or Gary Busse. This was their first day in Rio (they arrived early evening the day before) and were so excited to be out of cold ass dreary London that their emotions got the better of their commonsense. They are in complete pain and I feel sort of sorry for them but I can`t stop laughing because what they did was so stupid. I tell them this is the first time where I have stayed in a room where I`m not the dumbest person. I tell Christian that he is so red that it looks like a chick just had her period all over him (typical merker joke). Christian goes, awwww - good ol american humor, I love it. After this I know these guys are cool. I suspect we`ll hang out at some point. Christian is only 19 but I probably get along better with him this his mate Gustavo who is 26, go figure.
I walk over to Copa Cabana to get some food and crap and as (I told this story already, but here it is again) I am walking I see a guy with a gun pointed to some other guy`s dome walking towards me. I walk right past them as it`s too late to change directions by the time I actually realize what`s going on. Crazy, I don`t see too many guns pointed at people very often. Anyway,. my first gun story (kind of like Swingers,"Sorry about that" - "it`s cool, now I have my LA gun story"). It starts raining later, oh snap, not cool, here we go again. I think I will just stay in tonight and hang with the roomies and some other random peeps in the hostel. The bileveled girl sends me a text and she wants to go to Melt tonight with me, and the best part is she signs it Kisses, Luiza. What the fuck is this chickīs malfunction. Did I not just blow her off last night? Can she not take a hint? No, not even a hint, an absolute explicit intentional act that demonstrated without a doubt that I didn`t want to be with her. I go to dinner, have a beer and chill in the hostel for a bit. Oh, the waiter shook my hand when I lef the restaurant to say goodbye, gotta love Brazil. Nobody is going out, my roomates are completely jacked and everyone else is being lame also. It`s cool, I need to get up and go to Centro tomorrow to do some cultural turisty shit.
Fin
Comments
You are not special
Don't worry Merk, it is very common for girls to say kisses as part of their parting words. You hear it on the phone all the time to girls, guy friends, guy lovers. Usually they will say 'Beijos, Tchau.' Even guys will do that with guy friends, except they will say 'Abracos' which literally means 'hugs'. However, if a guy ever says 'beijos' to you, he wants your nuts. But it doesn't matter anymore, you are in Argentina. Too bad, you aren't in brasil any longer, I will be there on the 23rd of January.