Everyone’s heard of that song The Girl from Ipanema (Garota de Ipanema, in Portuguese), right? It’s about a girl that goes walking on Rio’s famous Ipanema beach, “and when she passes each one she passes goes ‘a-a-ah.'”
Well, anyway, this morning I was walking the ten steps from my room to the bathroom at my hostel to get something I forgot there, and as I walked through the common room, one of the guys sitting there loudly exclaimed, “WOW!” I was so startled, I didn’t have any idea what to do, so I didn’t do anything but keep on walking. He must’ve thought he’d offended me cuz on my way back out, he apologized. I just smiled and with no presence of mind whatsoever, slipped red-faced back into my room, wondering what the heck just happened.
I’m sure she was much more poised and sophisticated than I. :)
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Cracked me up. I’m still laughing