Traveling Oddities and Fun
This will be an ongoing post. I hope it amuses you as much as it does me. 31May23 My Spanish/Castilian is horribly bad. But funny. Today I told a pharmacist I needed something to deal with the "bloody and dried monkeys in my nose." I meant boogers. Mono = Monkey; Moco = Booger. Yes, I did know both words a priori ...honestly! Thankfully, the monkeys have been dealt with. And the nose specific monkeycide salve with aloe works. Those were some nasty and crusty monkeys. I'm glad to be rid of them. I realized this 12 hours after the fact. No wonder they looked confused. [Added 01Jun23. Today at breakfast I tried to recount the episode to the manager as we ate breakfast. I literally said "Yesterday, I 'am telling' the (using the wrong gendered article) pharmacist (horribly mispronounced) ..." Tenses are a gaping hole...everything is in the present. Even that gets bungled frequently.] Re the mon...