I've been invited to Venezuela

[Colonel Kira's Left Tit]

...and I'm pretty sure that's a good thing, because as we all know Venezuela is strictly an invite-only environment.

A llttle background info is required here. I've been spending the past few days with a former college roommate and his girlfriend, and of course I immediately stashed them in the basement where their mental emanations would be shielded from the real world via the lead-lined concrete foundation walls. I'm not sure if that's good or bad, it simply is.

The girlfriend is very handsome woman, though she must be much older than we are. I'd estimate early 50s, but it's hard to say. Mind you, the former college roommate has been seeing her since 2001 but I've never met her up until now. I think they started dating while we were still living together, too.

Anyway, on New Years Eve we got together with a bunch of other acquaintances and proceeded to get shitfaced. Somehow, she still wasn't scared off. One of my friends there had stopped cutting his hair in 2003 and the Venezuelan girl decided it would be a good idea to curl his hair up into Princess Leia buns and make him walk around in a toga for the rest of the night. He complied, but he's just that type.

They are leaving for home tomorrow, but before I kicked them out tonight she said I was welcome to go with her to Venezuela anytime I wanted to, on her family's dime. Is this for real, or do they just turn Americans into food when they get down there?

 

[Ancalagon]

Will you be going to Caracas?

Where are you from?

Be VERY careful if you go. Americans are hated by the Chavistas.

 

[FBI parte due]

Good food, though, unless they've chased all the good cooks out to Boston now.

 

[Colonel Kira's Left Tit]

Caracas would be the fly-in destination, but I get the idea that most of her family lives near the coast.

I am from the Central US.

And according to her, Americans are loved by the upper class in Venezuela. As she told the story, there is no middle class there either, you're either extremely rich or extremely poor.

I think it would be an interesting place to visit, if nothing else. I've been pretty much everywhere in the world, but not South America.

 

[Ancalagon]

The upperclass, yes. But the lower classes (Chavistas) freakin hate us.

If you aren't going to be in Caracas, I'd say go for it. :techman:

 

[Colonel Kira's Left Tit]

She did mention the Chavistas (and she is completely anti-Chavez, by the way) and how they have these corrogated tin box house-things that are stacked upon each other and how the poor class lives in them.

Also, in Venezuela the sewer pipes are maybe 5cm in diameter and their toilet paper is possibly non-biodegradable. Or at least it doesn't feel like the toilet paper we have come to know and love.

 

[Cassie]

My dad and grandparents lived in Venezuela for several years. They loved it there, but that was back in the 50's.

 

[CaptainWacky]

Poor people ruin every country.