cause I always sit next to someone breast feeding or eating a hot dog.
POST FROM Thursday, March 10, 2005
A Day With My Grandma Who Refuses To Leave The City
I'm going two nights a week to sleep over my grandma's place because she is, well, very alone and fears someone may break into her apartment. So she needs someone else there to be able to sleep at night.
Yesterday morning we went to pay some bills to a bank and then we walked some more to the market, by that time, heading back, I needed oxygen. The woman walked over 30 blocks and dare to say to me, you too tired to go to pick up my medicine with me?. My big opened eyes said it all.
After I organized all her bills into new folders and had lunch, we went to the pharmacy. Umm, 20 more blocks across a city that had tons of cups waiting for a manifestation, I wish I had taken my camera. It's insane the amount of tourists here in Buenos Aires.
Anyway..
As we were coming back and I was heading to the subway to leave, we ran into a woman that, I just didn't notice on time, was holding on her chest 5 snakes. I was just two inches from one's head when I noticed the woman. I pushed my grandma to the right in horror. Grandma felt on the floor. No, not really. She just started laughing and told me Girl* ya know they are fake don't ya?. I was way not breathing anymore to understand. I swear. My grandma went on saying, She is selling them!. I was like, I know I know (insert hysterical fearful laugh here), did you think I thought a weird lady was just holding snakes in plain street for no reason at all?, no not me. And like that, I obviously didn't save the embarrassing moment, which will be used on an unsuspected moment in time to come bite me in the arm.
Even after KNOWING they were artificial I couldn't stare at them. Now, I want to buy one and scare the crap out of people like me. If only I could find that weird walking lady merchandising fake plastic snakes.
*My family vs. Recognizing who I am, that's another blog therapy session I'll probably write down another time.
8/13/05 - It's probably not a great idea not to go to your medical appoitment when you get the best job they could have probably offered you, just because you want to mantein that perfect record of never taking a blood test.
