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My lasting souvenir from Puerto Rico
Mar. 29th, 2019 11:17 amThe day the ship docked in Puerto Rico, our tour was later in the day. We got off and wandered around for a bit in the morning, just to see where we needed to meet and to take in a bit of San Juan.
As we were walking along the wide sidewalk along the seashore, a woman in a group of tourists passing by us inadvertently smacked the back of my hand with something she was holding. I don't know what it was, perhaps a hard sunglasses case. Maybe a brick. Or a small neutron star. Whichever way it was, it hurt like hell for a moment, and then started to bruise spectacularly.
( cut for photo of bruise on my hand )
I don't blame the woman for hitting me, but I do blame her for not turning around and saying "Sorry!" or "Whoops!" or something like that. There was no way she didn't feel the impact, too, and no excuse for not showing the basics of human decency. I only wish I'd screamed "OW!" or something at the time, but things that take me by surprise often result in dead silence from me, for whatever reason. Ah well.
As we were walking along the wide sidewalk along the seashore, a woman in a group of tourists passing by us inadvertently smacked the back of my hand with something she was holding. I don't know what it was, perhaps a hard sunglasses case. Maybe a brick. Or a small neutron star. Whichever way it was, it hurt like hell for a moment, and then started to bruise spectacularly.
( cut for photo of bruise on my hand )
I don't blame the woman for hitting me, but I do blame her for not turning around and saying "Sorry!" or "Whoops!" or something like that. There was no way she didn't feel the impact, too, and no excuse for not showing the basics of human decency. I only wish I'd screamed "OW!" or something at the time, but things that take me by surprise often result in dead silence from me, for whatever reason. Ah well.
