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#Just yapping and no receipt
halenhusky309 · 3 months
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Fucking Twitter JC stans crying about being harassed and instead of showing the screenshot of the perpetrator harrassing and doxxing, they just posted the account of that "perpetrator"
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confinesofmy · 2 months
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i'm planning next week's picnic like if one thing goes wrong i'll be publicly beheaded. i'm locked in to such an absurd degree.
#also never shopping in my nearest town again maybe#i saw my cousin's ex who lives an hour away and her friend together which is so....... like wow i really thought i'd seen the last of him#very messy situation#started talking to a cashier/stocker i've spoken with on occasion for several years and she showed me some of her art & poetry (???)#got in line in front of one of my former classmate's dads who tried to proposition me right after my mom died#went to the new dollar store which has four self checkouts & one manned‚ tried to use a self checkout and the cashier said#'we don't have self checkouts' i said 'do you mean today or period' she said 'period' and we discussed how badly that's got them fucked up#they're literally running one of the self checkouts as a manned checkout when things get busy like...#and it was JUST built!! like just less than a year ago i think#i always come home from that town wanting to pull my hair out it's sooo strange!! like everything is craaazy#i also got fucking scammed!#i forgot to check until just now but the grocery store likes to run a weekly sale then not update the computers to reflect it#like they've done this for years and years#and i paid $1.99/lb for apples that were marked down to $1.12/lb so i overpaid a damn dollar#during the panini when it was my only source of groceries sometimes the difference would literally be like $50 because of big ticket items#i'd usually walk out‚ unload and read the receipt‚ then walk back in and get my refund. every friday.#and if i didn't i'd be out like $100/month for nothing on top of everything costing double what it did in the city#that place is fucking cursed. like there's just layers and layers of misery covering every surface.#adam yaps
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sexysilverstrider · 1 year
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got into a minor accident and when i told my family the first thing that came out of my moms mouth is "is the guy who hit your car cute"
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teddybeartoji · 4 months
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office au! with coworker!gojo
he's the type to always be a little late. by a little, i of course mean a lot. he always bursts in the door with the biggest smile on his lips and four coffees in his hand. he winks at his coworkers, who then always blush and giggle out a hi, satoru! and you always roll your eyes at that. satoru nods his male coworkers, who always try to dap him up and start a conversation but he doesn't have time for that. he has things to do. (as if he isn't literally Late smh)
he answers the guys' question while he's walking – his eyes set on his favourite coworker. you. sitting in your cubicle, you're trying to ignore him and his dramatic enterance. that he does every single day. how annoying can he be? before you can roll your eyes again, a cup of coffee has landed on your table, making you glance over your shoulder.
he's blinding you, his grin is stretched so wide it's almost a bit creepy. he's standing right behind you, leaning his hand on your table right next to where he just placed the coffee. he's way too close for a co-worker and you gulp.
ugh.
"aren't you gonna thank your favourite coworker for bringing you coffee? whew, tough crowd, huh." his smile doesn't falter and he just leans in closer, his cologne clouding your senses.
UGH.
and he really does do it every single fucking day. he brings you coffee and he annoys you and he makes your eyes roll so hard you almost go blind and you hate to admit that he's kinda cute... it's whatever.
back to the coffees. so one of them is for you – he knows your order because he dug out the receipt from your bag when you weren't looking on his second day there. he almost got caught, too. but he only did that because you didn't wanna tell him your order!! and he was so insistent on bringing you coffee that he just had to find another way. he loved the way your eyes widened and how you tried to mask your surprised expression but nothing gets past his keen eyes. when you asked how he did it, he just told you that he guessed it. yeah, right....
the second coffee is for him. it's an insanely sweet latte. how do you know? he made you try it. more liked begged for you to try it. you also hate to admit that his puppy-dog eyes worked on you... he only drinks the special latte from the corner coffee shop and he refuses to drink the office "coffee". he's fancy like that.
the third coffee is for his second favourite coworker – kento nanami! they sure make an interesting pair. kento is the main reason why satoru even got the job. the latter begged him to pitch for him to the boss; he was so excited by the concept of Office Work and just had to try it out. he, of course, passed the interview with flying colors and kento regrets his decision to "help" him out in the first place. satoru yaps his ears off whenever he isn't doing the same to you and he's constantly leaving little notes for the man. you once saw one and it just had a miniature penis drawn on it. very mature.
and the fourth coffee is for your boss. satoru isn't sucking up like you originally thought he was. you think he just wants to bring her coffee? your boss is cool – she's in her forties and she has a strong voice, everybody always listens to her and she really does make for a very good boss. your guess is that satoru has a crush on her. (you're wrong. he also just thinks she's super fucking cool. literally nothing else to it.)
he's always wearing a fancy white button-up with a black tie loosely hanging around his neck and a pair of matching black slacks that hug his thighs so nicely that the women and the men of the office are always finding it hard to not stare at them. he gets an obnoxious ego boost from this.
he's constantly leaning on other people's desks, pushing his hips out and it really is hard to concentrate whenever he does it. the pose and the smug smirk he sends you when he catches you looking is making you feel hot. he always catches you too, it's so annoying. why can't he just continue doing whatever he's doing so you can admire him in peace?
he's loud, he's annoying and he's so fucking good at his job that firing him couldn't even be a passing thought. he actually does his paperwork rather fast; often finishing before you and that gives him the time to tease you for being slow. he does that way less than you expected though. only a few times in a day – enough to annoy you but never enough to actually make you upset or angry. he actually helps you sometimes. he can tell you don't wanna ask and he doesn't wanna make you feel bad - he'd rather watch you roll your pretty eyes at his stupid jokes with a small hidden smile than roll them with a deep frustrated sigh. he learned that the hard way.
he loves your smile. more often than not you can't keep the straight face you try to put up with him, making your loud laughter resonate throughout the whole office. oh, how his eyes shine at that.
long story short. he's infuriating. he's funny. he's way too good at his job. he's way too handsome. you loathe working with him and yet, you can't stop smothering him in kisses whenever you two "happen" to meet in the printer room.
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3rr0rc0d3 · 1 month
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Because i love @soaps-mohawk 's writing (And Tris herself, mostly her dog tho /lhj) and we all want fluff from all that sweet sweet angst. heres a little drabble thinggy for her fic Cherry Red, Crimson Blood WHICH POSTS SATURDAYS OR SUNDAYS AMERICAN TIME BTW and we are blessed with such artistry.
Anyways. Onto the little drabble-
Building onto the thing with Gaz having a 10 step Skincare routine, he 100 percent has self care days with reader. Like breakfast in bed with them, while talking about he randomest but juiciest goss from around the base, so juicy in fact that soap join in JUST to yap with them WITH receipts of it all. Gaz will be there sipping tea, bridgerton playing in the background, high tea on a table in the rec room, all three of you are in what yall sleep in, Soap is in that honk shoo mimimi nightgown lookin ass thing lookin like hes boutta see the ggost of christmas past present and future. Gaz looking like hes on his eight divorce wearing that one sheer floor lentgh fur trimmed robe, yall know the one. All the while Ghostis off training new recruits and Price is doing paperwork.
Reader: Did that really happen?
Soap: Yeah bonnie, it happened, 'ere ive got a video that some o' tae new recreuits coughed up.
Big man would show receipt after receipt of what happened to you, excluding the gory details of course.
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scenezfreak · 5 months
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Wassupppp girlie!!! I hope ur doing well! I had a request...what abt jeff with a reader who's taller and way more sassy than him? And maybe she corrects him whenever he tries to act over smart?
Us tall girls dont get recognition frfr 😞💔
A/N: I’m doing great! I hope you are too! ALSO OMGG. WE TALL GIRLS DEFINITELY DONT GET ENOUGH ATTENTION IN THESE STORIES 🙏 I’m literally taller than him too LMAO and Jeff would definitely like a sassy s/o
I Hope you don’t mind if I make this a headcannon post since I don’t think I’ve posted Jeff with a tall s/o!
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Jeff with a tall s/o who’s sassy
Jeff the killer x tall!fem!reader
Warnings: just some kissing (and killing)
NOT PROOF READ, MINORS DNI
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• First..he wouldn’t put you down for your height, he’s a killer, not a monster.
• Of course he’d make jokes about your height compared to his though…but if you snap back and make fun of him for being “short” he’d shut up pretty quick and turn away…seems he’s blushing a bit!
• HATES when you tease him by putting something just out of his reach.
• When he kisses you he pulls you down by the collar of your shirt.
• He lowkey loves your sassiness, if you ever correct him about something he’s just get defensive and tell you to shut up (he knows you’re right.
• If you guys are cuddling he’d still be the big spoon..no matter how tall you are. He WILL make it happen.
• He will quite literally tackle you if you rest your elbow on his head 🫡
• He does like your long legs though..literally stares if you’re wearing shorts or something
• If you correct him he’ll argue with you for almost an hour until you pull up the receipts that he’s wrong 😐 at that point I would just start ignoring him LMAO
• If you do ignore him if he tries arguing that he’s right then he’ll follow you around and continue YAPPING.
• Will randomly jump on your back just to catch you off guard..but will get mad if you drop him.
• If you ever get insecure about your height he’ll try his best to comfort you…but he isn’t the best at it and end up saying “You aren’t THAT tall” and will freak out when he realizes that wasn’t the right thing to say and will just awkwardly hug you and tell you that he loves your height…but he’ll stutter since he never expresses his feelings
• Now if someone were to make fun of your height he’d yell at them then later that night he’ll kill them (after torturing them ofc)
• If the bullying is online he’ll just get Ben to kill them LMAO (which Ben will originally say no to but Jeff ends up paying him and he agrees)
• If you ever catch him staring and start teasing him about it he’ll get so flustered and yell at you and walk away
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Short story:
“Then I stabbed the knife right into his heart.” Jeff said, pointing to his chest..not to where the heart was. He was currently telling a story about how he killed someone who made you cry over your height. “Jeff that’s your chest..” you sighed. “Huh? No it’s the heart. Right here.” He pointed at the same spot..the MIDDLE of his chest. “..I forget you dropped out of school as a teen.” You laughed, he let out a “tch.” You grabbed his hand and used his hand to point at where his heart was, “Right here, that’s where your heart is.” He immediately put his hand down. “What are you talking about? I know where the heart is!” He said.
You grabbed your phone to show him a picture of a diagram of where the heart was. “See?” You turn your phone to show him. He looked dumbfounded. “Jeff..don’t tell me all this time you’ve only been stabbing people in the chest?” You were holding back laughter. He stuttered over his words and his face was heating up in embarrassment, “shut up! How about YOU be the first person I stab in the heart!” He said sarcastically. You laughed, “what was that? Can’t hear you from here~!” You teased. He growled and tackled you.
Of course he didn’t actually do anything, you guys were just play fighting…which led to a heavy makeout session…..
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dreams-sies · 1 month
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@ twitter op talking shit, so in other words you're protecting them from consequences which doesn't rly make you look any better
we all know these ppl talk a lotta smack but can't write the checks to back up their words cuz the minute they bring anything out it'll get ripped to shreds in the verifying process
they seen what dream did with just *his* receipts, haters don't even dare do anything more than yap now
EXACTLY!! Everything they will spew out is 100% disinformation or straight up rumors with no evidence.
They are pathetic.
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unlockthelore · 17 days
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follow me into the unknown [dev notes #1]
orig written on 05.22.24
When I started working on this chapter, it wouldn’t be written at all!
I had no idea to write from Tsugeura’s point of view, and if I told you what originally sparked the idea to think from his perspective, it would actually be a jumble of things. One of which is that I wanted to have the scene with Sakura. While the bulk of the original concept was a conversation between Tsugeura and Kiryū concerning the events of Chapter 32, I was also curious about how Sakura felt about it. I know how odd that sounds - in a fic that is supposed to be dealing with two characters with absolutely no relation to Sakura - how did he manage to get in?
Well, the reason is twofold:
How Kiryū confronted Tsugeura.
Tsugeura’s response to the confrontation.
Now, from a reader’s standpoint, do I believe Kiryū was wrong? No.
Tsugeura’s energy and his habit for getting into people’s space can be off-putting to someone who is easily overwhelmed or doesn’t like to be close to others. In this case, he wasn’t being very considerate in reading the room, especially regarding this girl who was clearly afraid of something. He was virtually a stranger to this girl who was almost abducted - a loud, pushy stranger - and seeing as she was already shaken up from her experience, it made sense that Kiryū stepped in for her. However, anyone who knows Tsugeura would know that he didn’t really mean anything by what he did. He was excited to get to know Kiryū and invited her along because she was there. It was a polite gesture, just terribly acted upon. The same way I believe Kiryū checking Tsugeura was right, only poorly executed.
Not to mention, they’re all first-years who may or may not know one another all that well.
Now, I know what you must think: Lore, get to the point. What does that have to do with Sakura?!
Allow me to drag in a couple of receipts:
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Now, let’s analyze this for a second, shall we?
When Kiryū scolds Tsugeura for his thoughtless action, he focuses primarily on one aspect of Tsugeura: his appearance. The panel shows Tsugeura from a bottom right angle, where he’s essentially towering over Kiryū with his fist clenched. While he doesn’t mean to be threatening, one could consider without the dialogue and context, his intentions are to be. Now, who else has been judged based upon their appearance without regard to their true intentions or feelings?
Sakura Haruka!
While I don’t believe Sakura thought this deeply into it in canon, perhaps in FW verse - it does strike a chord with him. He doesn’t know these people, and he doesn’t know their stories, but he does know what it feels like to be judged. And while Sakura’s attempt at comforting confronting Tsugeura about how he feels in the matter was well-intentioned but also poorly executed (he’s trying), it came from a place of understanding. Tsugeura worked hard for the body that he has, but he never wanted to use it to intimidate others. Similarly, Sakura was born the way he looks but never asked for it. Why should he be judged based on that alone?
To someone who has been judged for their appearance and never once learned as an individual, Kiryū’s argument could come off as a: Think of how you appear to others and act accordingly.
Especially when Tsugeura’s response was innocently: I’m just being myself.
This excites me to explore the other half of this argument because, as I said, Tsugeura isn’t totally in the right, and Kiryū isn’t totally in the wrong. Sakura’s involvement provides a buffer between them from an outsider’s perspective, but now it’s time to resolve things between who it belongs to.
So, if you got to the end of this spiel, congratulations! I hope you enjoyed my endless yapping, and check on the next chapter titled: kiryū.
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kamiversee · 2 months
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MA'AM DON'T THINK I FORGOT ABOUT THE YAP SESSION I'M GATHERING RECEIPTS LIKE THEY'RE BERRIES IN PALEOLITHIC TIMES OOOOO MY GOD THIS HAS ME GOING CRAZYYYYYY
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HELP. ME & SO MANY OTHERS ARE AWAITING THE YAP SESSION OF A LIFETIME 🙌 take your time tho ofc ^.^
Can’t wait to see what you come up with :)
(Scared you might go on and just write the next book for me on accident amid trying to figure everything out💀)
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footytea · 3 months
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the jude italy stuff was a lie someone made up on an anon gossip account on insta the time they said he was there he was at training so just a blatant lie
yeah i figured jude didn't go italy during that time
again guys please take the tea without receipts or sources with a grain of salt, some people just be yapping and then it gets spread around
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bcofl0ve · 1 year
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"and she’s 100% involved with mother mary even if they aren’t filming right this second. as is alba baptista."
receipts please. because you were also 100% sure she was in germany and had a whole thing about austin watching the dog while she's gone (and before you lash out again for people taking your words for what they are – yes, i know that was not meant to be serious).
and if you ~can't share them, then why yap about it at all?
the only thing i ever claimed to be 100% sure of was just now about her involvement in the movie. i never said i was 100% sure she was in germany, it was always an assumption and i don’t think i need to add ‘well i’m only 70/80/95% sure’ disclaimers to every single post i make about a given topic, least of all talking in jest about austin and milo. but.
kaia and alba both recently followed each other & the same other people- dani vitale (who is listed on imbd as the choreographer for the movie), jessie findlay, and sian cifford. k already followed hunter, but alba just followed all of those people ^ plus the official a24 page and anne hathaway. dani the choreographer just followed all of the above people. and ik i’m going to get told it’s just a coincidence but like…no it’s not LOL.
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rachymarie · 11 days
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I've been needing to return some things to a store for a few weeks but been struggling presentable and outta the house in time before naptime, or after nap but with enough time to get home before it's dark bc it's not safe out there for women walking alone.
So I meant to go today but have been waylaid* (a little more on that below the cut-off, trying my bestest to make my posts more readable/succinct)
It was a crappy af sleep last night, kept waking up, dreaming, writing the dreams down in Notes cos they were so bizarre and I generally see them as (perhaps a little spiritual) insights indicative/metaphors of things bothering me/to deal with in my waking life and such. Sometimes my dreams actually predict minor things that are about to happen irl, but I might make a separate post on that.
But I digress, - so anyway: waylaid and got later and later until surprise it's nap time now. Not surprising to be hella off course for the day's schedule after a poor sleep (sometimes i feel like that's just a simple fact for me that's outta my control without some kind of outside help beyond meds)
So anyways I'm tryna rope my friend into coming with me to Kmart for "company and moral support".** Hopefully it's not too much of an imposition on them, and I'll still have to go if not. We'll see. Maybe tomorrow
Good golly, look at me getting horribly off-track devolving into a mess of circumstantial speech today. Happy reading and happy day to you all. May you find the courage and confidence to to do The Scary Thing. Eat that frog my friend 💓
*I got a bit triggered and was telling a guy off for being fatphobic lol, they haven't read it so i guess it may have been a waste of precious time but at least I got it all out and stood up for myself and women even if they're not gonna read it. But being a Saturday they may just be too busy to read yet, we'll see.
**It's just a bit daunting this time cos there's multiple items to be returned across multiple receipts and with the nature of the items I'm unsure if they have will accept them but, naturally - me being me, I've done my research and from reading their returns policy it seems it should be possible. And I've just gotta try be chill when I do it and not yap on too much and overexplain like I tend to do in pressured situations. (The symptom of "Pressured speech" - which I listed in my big post about Schizospec "rambling" symptoms - maybe?)
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kmp78 · 24 days
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"... so maybe he did meet her but just to tell her it's dunzo between them and that's why this happened... 🫣"
Suddenly acting like a responsible adult? So she could say bye bye to Constance?
🤨 the only thing she gets from him these days might be a reminder of the NDA she signed to keep her yap shut🤐
Anon better shows some receipts or elaborate on this story or else I have call 🤥💩
Receipts would be nice. 🤷🏼‍♀️
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thefauxsport · 25 days
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when has burgundy ever EVER about ANY player shown proof of her tea? literally never. all she does is yap about it. never shows receipts for her precious bosa or aiden hutch but will show a receipt for burrow that is looking a little suspicious as time goes on.
So, it’s not just us noticing that?
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the-firebird69 · 6 months
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We are now in receipt of orders from Olympus to take over tons of area because it's emptying and we don't want them back and if they come back we attack and we're going to hold it and get rid of them idiots there's too many of them they're very stupid and they're unreasonable and don't want to do anything except sit here and bother our son and us and his wife to no end it's ridiculous behavior hasn't paid off in any way and they just continuously do it we're not the kind of people that do it too we'll go after you until you shut up and if you can't shut up you just this leak that we have to plug not that your leak but really how annoying can you get okay you're stupid people it's really your lives away cuz you want to be annoying like I said we're going to go after you until you shut up he sent you a while ago and you didn't believe us and you get cut in half in a few years and if they will believe it when we see it it's a good just yep you'll get there and it started yapping and he said they said you can't take it this is what I just sit here and you have to get killed what's the point of it everybody gets pissed at you too it takes your stuff so he started kneeling or something so do it for real stupid putts. they stopped for a minute and left. It started to come back one by one and we picked them up other people grabbing them and they said we can see what's happening and they kept doing it and that's what they are idiots there's a few techniques like that and what to do is they think they're threatening for stuff so we're hungry down and taking them down because of what they're saying and we're going after a lot of them that's what you're trying to and globally and we're going to have huge areas in the southern 1000 miles in South America we are grabbing and holding three giant areas the size of Spain including Portugal moving up from there to the Congo for giant areas the size of Spain plus Portugal and already there we have around 10:00 for those two areas total and they're pretty big but it's really only about 70 by 100 MI and those areas are a thousand miles across in one spot and about 1200 or 1400 miles long so it takes a while to make a chunk out of there but really it is starting to add up he said I think if you add those together it's like the whole thing and he's right but we're talking about other areas but if you had it all up it's way too much area. We are putting it out there but it's not that much area but it is a lot and it's really my basis that they're messing up and they can't hold on to any of them we tell her to get out they're causing a war and there's a bunch of them and it's pretty decent size area and we're not really saying where or what but that's what we're doing and up in the Congo no in the Amazon it's like half the area but it's intermittent and in Brazil it's similar this huge areas we took because they're empty and we just don't let anybody in cuz you're a pain there's also some other areas that we are after we don't want you to ships plus sitting in bunkers above those and we don't want you in the caverns and we're moving to stop that from happening right now the warlocks are gearing up according to sac for an attack and it's all about one quarter of the bunker cavern areas and it's not real big ones but they have a huge Force that's building up by the time they're ready they will have the bunkers of those areas 100% and areas of Jason to in harborside by pulling from everywhere else and it's going on like that but we think it'll be ready come tomorrow I was just really today and they plan on attacking yeah it's a huge force they might actually take the ships and by tomorrow we mean they're about four 100 mi ships and two 300 mile shifts but their class A and they do heavy damage to Big ships and they're moving out pretty soon
-couple other areas that we are going to cover they are going to try and get here relentlessly and they will try to get here using force relentlessly. And they're going to get stopped by the pseudo empire and then by the empire who will probably crush them. Sorry to be gone tonight A flotilla will strike or this morning really only around 2:30 a.m. and it's going to be very big offshore and they will lose and the ships get grabbed it's quite a seed
-other than that there are a couple of the wars going on and what is in the Parks and it is over cadmium and made a big difference to everyone and they're all going down there now huge strolls and they see giant deposits and they're getting ready and they have tons of stuff to do they also having a war at the ships up in the north it's a giant war and it requires a lot of energy and attention and we have to stop them here and I'm going to
Tjo and Freya more shortly
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jacks-tracks · 1 year
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aguas termales
Hot springs at manialtepec, a day hike.
The manialtepec river flows out of a very long steep sided valley, a smooth series of oxbows. The trail is a dirt(dust) cow path through native scrub and barb wired dry pastures. 5 miles up is a hot spring which the town has piped into cement tanks. Probable rise in elevation is 200 feet, so an easy walk.
I went with my friend Gordon Smith, who at 85 is in much better shape than me.He's an ardent cyclist, retired ski instructor, life long batchelor, native of West Vancouver, now a summer resident of SunValley Idaho who winters in Mexico with his Mexican girlfriend Maru. She's in Mexico city for biz, so this was a good opportunity for we two to go hiking.
From Puerto Escondido there are collectivo taxis direct to Manialtepec, but seeing none at the crucero we hopped in a van going up the highway whose driver promised we could get from the highway to the town easily. For 35 pesos we rolled through the farmland at the base of the foothills, the road being raised above the lowlands along the lagunas. Dry season, the hills are crispy grey, trees are leafless, pastures bone dry. The crucero turnoff was deserted and I fretted that any collectivo from Puerto would already be full, but a tuk tuk came south and squeezed us in with the fat mexican guy in the back. 15 pesos and 20 minutes later we were in Manialtepec, and after some confusion(surely we w anted to rent horses!?) and a bit of texting while driving the nice woman dropped us off right at the trailhead/river bank. There a town employee charged us 50 pesos each, which i thought included the hot springs. A pictuaresque Burro loaded with firewood came across the shallow river showing us the ford.
It's a long walk upstream with 6 crossings ranging from knee to crotch deep, on a sand or gravel bottom, slow current, cool water. We shuffled along, yapping all the way, seeing Mexican jays and a huge multi trunked tree river side. Also saw brush tossed 10 feet high up into the trees by the seasonal floods. The papaya plantation of 10 years ago is totally gone, but 4 miles up some enterprising locals have built a set of A frame thatched cabanas for overnight renters(1000 pesos night with cheap local food) . Everything comes in on horse back, and a campesino stopped to chat with bucket of groceries slung on the saddle horn, a pinata tied on the off side and his daughter riding behind. Gordon and I made OK time for a couple of old frts, shuffling carefully across the stream. While the brush is dry, the trees were fooled by the rain last week and were blooming, so at times we were walking on a carpet of purple trumpet shaped flowers. The further we went, the steeper the valley sides and narrower. A cowboy passed us, friendly greetings. This is the real backwoods Mexico. Even the town is still one story buildings, dirt streets, sleeping dogs and horses parked like cars at the gates. up in the roadless valley, it's timeless.
We crossed the last oxbow, and a tiny hot creek outflowing from the springs. Up the hillside to the site, where another campesino informed us that we had to pay an additional 100 pesos each to use the pools. Ha,We objected, had a receipt from ticket master #1, but no, that is just the trail fee! Finally bargained to 50 each for 20 minutes.(He could see we were maybe not going to pay, and the money goes unrecorded into his pocket.) Happy hikers, we slipped into the tanks, sort of cement hot tubs, some 10 foot by 10 or the bigger new ones 10 by 20, all only 3 feet deep. i went into the first one closest to the sulpher smelling hot spring outlet. Hot, almost too hot! I poached for a few moments and moved to the lower tank, a bit cooler. Gordon made it to the biggest pool, and we waved and grinned back and forth. 20 minutes! We were in a half hour, glad to be in the shade and off the trail. Gringoes came in, having ridden up on horses at 1000 pesos each!, We sat on a bench and shared the sandwhich i'd brought and one of Gordons' oranges.
somehow the trail home always seems shorter, and we made better time, stopping at the cabanas for a coffee and coconut. It's a good idea to have a place to stay close to the springs, but there was no signage, and in the rainy season, no access. Friendly people. The only event on the walk out was a herd of bhrama cows being pushed up the path by 3 cowboys. We huddled against the barb wire, but the cows were more scared of us than we them and they sidled and skittered by, eyeing us nervously, finally breaking into a ponderous gallop away. Dusty cowboys wore paper face masks.
Back to Manialtepec, tired but happy, we wandered the sleepy town, seeing yards full of flowers, new construction, a road crew preparing to lay cement, a bakery(polvorones cookies), and finally a collectivo taxi. (3 front and back )which got us back to Puerto by 2:30, tired but satisfied.30 pesos each. a collectivo rocket ride and home to shower and siesta. Fine day, good company, and most important of all, a get out of the city into the country day. It's easy to just beach walk, market and pool swim here, but it is a busy suburb, noisy and populated. Good to get away to where the real locals live.
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