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Great trip stories. UTC messing with the diver in Colombia?

I returned from Colombia and a three week visit late last night. I have thousands of photos and hundreds of stories to show and tell.

I will start with an encounter that occured in the middle of my trip.

So I am up and ready to go early; I can't help it, it is how I was brought up. It is maybe eight and I bored to death and chomping at the bit to go and see some of Colombia outside of our Laureles apartment. My wife and her sister and niece are poking around and I know I won't pry them out of the apartment before one in the afternoon. I announce that I am going for a walk and will check in later.

The streets in Laureles are not laid out in a recticular fashion so I soon found myself slightly lost as my four right turns did not bring me back to my starting point. Not a big deal as I know all I have to do is travel uphill and look for the Exito sign and get my bearings from there.

Anyway I stroll and enjoy looking at the local buildings and people and stop at a local panaderia for breakfast. For the life of me I cannot understand why my wife insists on buying groceries at Exito lugging them to the apartment up four flights of stairs, cooking breakfast, cleaning dishes...then starting your day. There are excellent panaderias every block and I got my breakfast daily for 2,000 pesos.

Anyway after finishing breakfast I am strolling again and find myself thirty or fourty feet behind what I presume was a begger or local street person anyway. He was thin black man in filthy clothes and had a yellow lab as a travelling companion. The lab was keeping pace with him and had in his mouth a purple sateen ball cap.

It wasn't just any purple cap; it was a special shade of purple, and I continued to stroll behind them maintaining a steady distance. They crossed the street and the dog dropped the cap and drank from a fountain in front of one of the nicer apartment building. The man lay down and drank from the fountain as well. I was catching up to them and didn't really fancy giving the man money so I turned right to take another direction.

I glanced over as the lab recovered the cap and all of the hair on the back of my neck stood up and the theme from twilight zone began playing in my head. It APPEARED that there were three gold letters along the side of the of the cap. NO...Impossible...it couldn't be! I wanted to stroll over and check it out; but, I wasn't really in the mood for an encounter of the beggar kind. I forced myself to continue in the same direction.

I wandered around for awhile longer and spied the Exito sign a few blocks away. I wandered over and got my bearings and oriented myself for my journey home. As I turned the corner to head back to my apartment there they were. The man and his dog. I glanced down and sure enough there it was a purple and gold ball cap with the bold letters L S U TIGERS and a monogram of Mike the Tiger.

Now the hairs were really standing up and the adrenaline pumping! What are the odds of me finding a ball cap from my alma mater Louisiana State University in the streets of Medellin?

What do y'all think? Did UTC set me up?

Tony

By lpdiver on Sep 12, 2007, 19:40 in Friendly Talkzone.

RAAAY says on Sep 12, 2007, 19:52:

.............." What are the odds of me finding a ball cap from my alma mater Louisiana State University in the streets of Medellin? "

From what I understand.........the odds are quite good actually. It's a well known fact here in Medellin that quite a lot of our beggars and street-people attended L.S.U.

Folks from other collages seem to have managed to get by nicely in life..................sadly though....................well.........you know the rest...........

Hee hee................

.........Its useless to argue with ignorance

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lpdiver says on Sep 12, 2007, 20:01:

Yeah I noticed a gentleman with a Gators cap as I turned to enter my apartment. Which got me to thinking. Gator and UTC are both attorneys and follow the forum well. Maybe it was a conspiracy!!!!

Collages...hmmm at least dis her coonass can spell...not bad for a future Medellin street-beggar.

hehe

"cook some rice!"

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john_stark says on Sep 12, 2007, 20:02:

All I can say is I had a helluva time finding that cap.

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Robert Jorge says on Sep 12, 2007, 20:14:

You know why they don't sell M&Ms at or near LSU? They are too hard to peel.

He who farts in church, sits in his own pew.

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lpdiver says on Sep 12, 2007, 20:38:

John_Stark...which cap? The LSU or Gators cap? Hmm?

t

"cook some rice!"

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john_stark says on Sep 12, 2007, 20:41:

Gator can find his own cap. Of course he probably has a huge supply of them stashed. I'm not an LSU fan but I didn't think there was any point giving the guy a Montana Grizzlies cap.

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lpdiver says on Sep 12, 2007, 20:43:

Not to mention that I wouldn't have noticed a Grizzlies cap.

t

"cook some rice!"

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Gator says on Sep 12, 2007, 21:12:

"From what I understand.........the odds are quite good actually. It's a well known fact here in Medellin (also Bogotá) that quite a lot of our beggars and street-people attended L.S.U." ROTFLMAO-
I know the man and the dog. They sometimes troll Rosales with an FSU grad.. I gave him 5.000 pesos several weeks ago and, after a brief conversation I was sure he was from LSU - I saw his class ring while he was picking his nose. He I understand he also graduated with a BSBA from LSU.

Seriously-I do have a couple of Gator hats and once, as an experiment, wore one every day for ten days several years ago in Cartagena. No Gator chomp or "Go Gators!" the entire time.

Any way thanks for a great story. Should be one hell-of-a game October 6.

Also the great aside from RAAAY.

"Credidi pretio parvo emere et magno vendere tibi in animo fuisse!" .

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campbell says on Sep 12, 2007, 23:07:

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campbell says on Sep 12, 2007, 23:07:

wow

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ukcatfan says on Sep 12, 2007, 23:16:

What can I say, lol?

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