Sunday, February 14, 2010

República Dominicalcantarilla (destapada)

Foreword: I don't actually know the girl who fell in an uncovered manhole and had to get stitched to the 80th.

In any case, you're never safe here. In order to be prudent (read: like a well-behaved gringo with a target on your back) it is necessary to sidestep through the streets of Santiago like a zombie Michael Jackson, posthumously moonwalking ever so cautiously, so as to stealthily avoid the ground giving way beneath your feet and falling to an embarrassing injury covered in, well, the typical contents of a sewer.

Or maybe that's just me.

Moral of the story, don't take manholes for granted. Nor womanholes, nor non-gendered holes. Okay, now it's starting to get too risqué for my liking.

3 comments:

  1. What...are you saying you fell down one of those manholes? Woh! Are you ok?

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  2. No, no, no, everything's fine. Just my words of precaution.

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  3. I'm working on taking a picture for you of the uncovered manhole that's on my way to school.

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