AGAIN
Weekends in Bogata are wildly alive, at least in our seedy section of town. Again we went to the next door flea market in a parking lot just around the corner from our apartment. Again the aisles were jammed and all kinds of people were strolling through, looking for bargains. Again I got a huge number of photographs.
Because my wallet was bare I stopped at an ATM and got another $100 but this time put $75 worth of pesos into my below the belt pouch and kept just $25 in my wallet in an inner pocket, of which I spent a little
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After the flea market we walked the wide main pedestrian street and ran across the Michael Jackson impersonator whose routine was amazing. He drew in various people from the crowd to dance with him. He even came right up to my iPhone as I was making a spatial movie and rolled his eyes. I took out my wallet and gave him 10,000 pesos ($3) and put my wallet back in an inner pocket.
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As we left the performance a sweet looking lady, in a very friendly way, tapped me on the shoulder and said that I had pigeon shit on me. I laughed and wiped it off. We walked on and within a minute I felt for my wallet in the inner pocket and it was gone. The bird shit lady had gotten my attention and someone, with Susie right beside me, had gotten my wallet.
So now in addition to the $25 in my wallet rule I have a rule that I keep my wallet with the $25 in a zipped up pocket. We’ll see how long that rule stays useful. The bird shit scam. I’m learning something new every day.
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