Rubble Work Site 12/19

Yesterday was an interesting day. While most people we rubble for are friendly, generous people that you feel the utmost warm-fuzzy-fuzzies working for, there can be exceptions... The man who´s former house we were clearing happened to be what I can only describe as a dirty old man, in its truest form. He began by describing to us his affinity for Coca. And how much of it he has taken over the years. Duly noted, and expected in this culture. ( I have sampled the Maté de Coca, and was surprised at its strength, most people say it isn´t as strong as coffee, but i was pretty tweaked after drinking it, luckily someone visited Arentina and brought back a glorious kilo of my beloved Yerba Maté so I could be craddling my Gourd as I write this... it has the great tendency of making you forget any feelings of sickness, but i digress) It was really only when the old man began to repeat ¨Pokey-Pokey con Gringa¨ that the perversity of this man became apparent. Now, being as physical as rubbling is, that does not mean that there are not women present in the least, one of our team leaders being among them. So as we tried to converse and pull meanings from this man we realized he was really only trying to reitereate over and over his desire to have sex with a white woman... How pleasant... In the best spanish I could muster I attempted to somehow express that it was improper for him to keep doing that. ¨Señor, por favor, es muy improper [pretty sure that´s spainglish] dices cuando las mujeres presente.¨ Yeah, anybody is welcome to correct me if they can. Well, that got him to stop talking, or he just decided he had better things to do. He proceeded to sit on a part of the foundation and pull out a porno mag. At first we were unsure if it was solely a porno mag, you see, down here its seems that the line between a newspaper and a smut rag is very ambiguous. They are sold side by side on the same ¨news stands¨and apparently some of them have a little news in them, I guess? After he read, uh, the article [no, I didn´t read that article, Yuri...] for a couple of minutes he begins to try to show us his favorite girl. ¨Mira, mira,¨ showing the girls at the site after the guys were obviously disinterested. All the while we are hard at work shovelling and hauling, don´t get me wrong, he was a nice man and he meant well, but he put the dirty in DIRTY old man. So remember that if your grandpa´s or uncle´s are letting loose with some crude jokes or comments this holiday season, it could quite possibly be worse...