The point of this report is to relate what happened by chance recently in a far reach of the island.
My friends and I rented a van to see the island. We were 5 days out. a little tired, but it was Sat. night, and it was fiesta time. We found our way to the local disco that was headlining a special act. We made a go of it, sitting in the back of this open air disco. First thing that happened was a waitress came near, and looked me straight in the eye, challenging me.... , why I was looking at her. Granted I'm a dirty old man with an eye for the 20 year old ladies, but I didn't deserve the daggers she was pointing at me. ( I was getting over another close call, so I was probably paranoid ). Nonetheless she had the eye of the tiger and totally intimidated me. And she was probably closer to 16 or 18. So licking my wounds and trying to be low key, I'm sitting nursing my drink, when another lady is giving me the eye...... Soon she wants me to dance. I don't have a free will here, what Lola wants, Lola gets.....
I give myself up, and she hauls me up to the dance floor, pushing everyone aside until we are smack dab in the middle. She is having a good time, dancing bachata and rubbing me up real close. Soon it's very plain she wants to get erotic...! When I get back to my friends, they all agree, a live one has attached herself to me... What am I to do? I stick with it. She seems to like me and gets me up to dance some more. Ok... but she seems to be parading me around the audience too.... something's up.....
It turned out that this was one of the "chica Caliente's" that was performing there that night. Ok so that makes sense. She's trying to make a spectacle to drum up business... later , on her first dance, she comes off the dance floor to haul me up there and give her a big smootch, ( somewhere I can't mention ), but that's not all....
Another part of the act was that there was a feud with a rival chica nearby. ( I'm guessuing this, it may not have been an act....) This girl totally challenges a group of locals by instigating a fight with another girl who may or may not have been known to her, I have no idea). She's all over their faces, and here I am in the background, a lowly gringo, ( my friends are long gone ).... I decide to play it low key by moving over to the other side of the disco,... but my reputation follows me.... people express their approval of certain of my skills....etc.... so I stick with the girl and wade through a group of locals, just so I can sit with her. To be truthful, there are a few other white faces in the crowd, one of which is the hotel manager where i checked in, ( he's pretty wiped but manages to allay my fears by talking a bit of sense to me so I stick with it again ). After awhile things seem to calm down a bit, and I gain some confidence that I can really end up with this tigress. She kind of talks to herself sometimes but I chalk it up to just...... anyway after things have calmed down a lot, and it's apparent that I stand a chance with her, a sharp dressed guy comes out from the back, who has had something to do with the whole business from the start.... He was regarded as a chulo by the more knowledgeable one of our band at the beginning. I try to ignore him , but he soon is talking very forthrightly to me in espanol that I can understand... He tells me his name and he is a promoter of shows in Santo Domingo. Soon he relates to me that the girl is from a very poor family from Monte Cristi and if I could give her a place to sleep, he would very much appreciate it. I need to get her back early in the morning for the bus back to Santo Domingo... He spoke Spanish very slowly to me so I would understand. I could see by the look on his face that he bore no malice, and was in fact NOT a chulo but a simple show promoter with a lot on his hands.
It turned out that the girl's stage demenour was totally opposite of what she was about... She was shy, even to the point of almost being childlike due to an affliction. So needing some sleep after such a long perilous night, we walked back under the most brilliant starscape I'd ever seen, and I slept until the roosters crowed some 4 or 5 hours later.... end of story.....
My friends and I rented a van to see the island. We were 5 days out. a little tired, but it was Sat. night, and it was fiesta time. We found our way to the local disco that was headlining a special act. We made a go of it, sitting in the back of this open air disco. First thing that happened was a waitress came near, and looked me straight in the eye, challenging me.... , why I was looking at her. Granted I'm a dirty old man with an eye for the 20 year old ladies, but I didn't deserve the daggers she was pointing at me. ( I was getting over another close call, so I was probably paranoid ). Nonetheless she had the eye of the tiger and totally intimidated me. And she was probably closer to 16 or 18. So licking my wounds and trying to be low key, I'm sitting nursing my drink, when another lady is giving me the eye...... Soon she wants me to dance. I don't have a free will here, what Lola wants, Lola gets.....
I give myself up, and she hauls me up to the dance floor, pushing everyone aside until we are smack dab in the middle. She is having a good time, dancing bachata and rubbing me up real close. Soon it's very plain she wants to get erotic...! When I get back to my friends, they all agree, a live one has attached herself to me... What am I to do? I stick with it. She seems to like me and gets me up to dance some more. Ok... but she seems to be parading me around the audience too.... something's up.....
It turned out that this was one of the "chica Caliente's" that was performing there that night. Ok so that makes sense. She's trying to make a spectacle to drum up business... later , on her first dance, she comes off the dance floor to haul me up there and give her a big smootch, ( somewhere I can't mention ), but that's not all....
Another part of the act was that there was a feud with a rival chica nearby. ( I'm guessuing this, it may not have been an act....) This girl totally challenges a group of locals by instigating a fight with another girl who may or may not have been known to her, I have no idea). She's all over their faces, and here I am in the background, a lowly gringo, ( my friends are long gone ).... I decide to play it low key by moving over to the other side of the disco,... but my reputation follows me.... people express their approval of certain of my skills....etc.... so I stick with the girl and wade through a group of locals, just so I can sit with her. To be truthful, there are a few other white faces in the crowd, one of which is the hotel manager where i checked in, ( he's pretty wiped but manages to allay my fears by talking a bit of sense to me so I stick with it again ). After awhile things seem to calm down a bit, and I gain some confidence that I can really end up with this tigress. She kind of talks to herself sometimes but I chalk it up to just...... anyway after things have calmed down a lot, and it's apparent that I stand a chance with her, a sharp dressed guy comes out from the back, who has had something to do with the whole business from the start.... He was regarded as a chulo by the more knowledgeable one of our band at the beginning. I try to ignore him , but he soon is talking very forthrightly to me in espanol that I can understand... He tells me his name and he is a promoter of shows in Santo Domingo. Soon he relates to me that the girl is from a very poor family from Monte Cristi and if I could give her a place to sleep, he would very much appreciate it. I need to get her back early in the morning for the bus back to Santo Domingo... He spoke Spanish very slowly to me so I would understand. I could see by the look on his face that he bore no malice, and was in fact NOT a chulo but a simple show promoter with a lot on his hands.
It turned out that the girl's stage demenour was totally opposite of what she was about... She was shy, even to the point of almost being childlike due to an affliction. So needing some sleep after such a long perilous night, we walked back under the most brilliant starscape I'd ever seen, and I slept until the roosters crowed some 4 or 5 hours later.... end of story.....