Hey...it's been done!!! I did it!!! Back in 2002 the first time I was in DR...
This gorgeous guy was teaching how to dance bachata at the beach, and I was left without a 'partner'...I asked him...'what about me?' and he said...come on...you dance with me!
Of course, he thought I spoke only English...but when we got close enough to show the steps...I said in Spanish...
"Pero asi no se baila la bachata...a mi me dijeron que para bailar la bachata bien, se tiene que bailar bien pegadito"
...(This is not the way you dance bachata, I was told that in order to dance bachata really well you have to do it really close to each other)
He started to laugh a little and told me "But I can't do that here, 'cause I'll get fired" (In Spanish, of course)
Then he proceeded to say: "But if you really want to practice dancing bachata 'pegadito' we can meet up at the disco tonight"...Of course we did!!!
So you see...there are lines a girl can use to pick up a sankie...although I had no idea about sankies at that time...I just thought he was cute!
In reality, he wasn't MY sankie...we became really good friends...(I found out that same night he was married and his wife and 2 kids lived in SDQ, we were in Punta Cana) the only thing he ever asked me for was to call his sister that lives here in Miami to ask her how she was doing after having a baby...no money transactions involved at any time!!!
I think now he's in Jamaica...they sent him there to be the "Director de Animaci?n" in a new resort...
Kid's moving up in the world!! I haven't been able to get in touch with him lately...
MQ