Another thing

Man I am so backlogged with 3 weeks worth of stuff I need to remember and post.

Also, if you read my to-do list, I am so excited about the caving thing. So incredibly excited. But a little worried about trying to understand shouted spanish in an emergency setting. So I think I am just going to try and find "The Descent" dubbed in Spanish and watch it a few times. That should do it, right?

And now for the main attraction, the reason I actually started this post!

Actually I just forgot that thing, so have this one. We were sitting in a pizza shop. Everything was so absolutely lovely - the open air front of the store allowed automotive fumes to waft in and teasingly mix with the smell of our delicious food. All was picturesque. Until something else decided it would be cool to waft right in. And by something else, I mean gypsies.

As we are sitting down to our food, three gypsies rush in and and started excitedly blathering on in Spanish as fast as possible. The only intelligible thing is that they have a petition for us to sign. We were all rather overwhelmed by the speed at which they were talking, and the distraction was only furthered when one of these fine ladies put her hand right on Cullen's food. At the same moment one of the others goes to put her petition down in front of him. Right as I look up from making sure they weren't trying to steal my backpack, I notice that she has put it right on his iPhone and is trying to pick it up.

Mustering only my finest Spanish and most sarcastic thinking into the ultimate retort, I respond with the utmost grace. My awkwardly swatting down her petition, grabbing the phone, yelling "NO" in the exact same way my mother does when our dog Emma jumps on people, and promptly shutting down.

I honestly stood there holding the phone, protecting my wallet pocket, and stared blankly at the woman yelling at me about smacking her petition. Luckily another customer had come into the shop and promptly shooed these women out.

And that is why I deserve an adult-sized Batman 'Buff'.