Laptop with Sunscreen?

Today, in our favourite cafe by the beach, I saw for the first time since we have been going there, 2 young Spanish boys. You know this is the problem with living in Spain by the sunny coast, most of the people are either tourists, old, or both! And the ones who are not, the Spaniards, you never see them because they are working for the tourists, and anyway they generally avoid the sunny cafe terraces, preferring the shade.

These two boys were sitting there today, with a laptop. The first laptop I saw there, too, and I kind of liked it, yes, I love computers, everywhere! It was just so funny watching the two boys as they tried for a long time to view the screen, first with the computer buttons, then shading it with the hands, even using the café menu as a sun shade, but all to no avail: they couldn´t see anything on the screen, except their own reflection! A sunny cafe terrace in Spain is not the place to work on a computer! It´s much more suited to doing crosswords or smoking a cigarette!

Boy with laptop

Man doing crosswords

Cigarette Girl

Hola Guapíssima!

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Do you know that in Spain, almost each man, when he meets a woman, well-known to him or not, greets her with the words:

“Hola, Guapa!”

which means something like: Hello Beauty!

At the beginning when I came to live in Spain, I always felt very flattered and well about myself and my female condition, when the men greeted me like that. I thought, Spain was definitely the right country for me to live in!

But soon I noticed that every woman, what ever she looks like, is greeted as a Beauty, and my enthusiasm about Spain and above all about myself went on a vertiginous curve downhill… I couldn´t help to compare myself with the ugliest amongst all these Beauties, and not with the most beautiful of course!
Since we arrived here (Provincia de Almeria) , some weeks ago, we go quite regularly to our favourite cafe by the beach, where Kevin reads while I am sketching people. They have some South American male waiters there and one day I noticed that one of them, a typical Argentinian Beau, greeted one client, a real dark beauty, with the words

“Hola Guapissima!”

which is the superlative of “guapa” and means Superbeauty, kind of.

I thought that this was a new way to make a difference between the real beauties, and the monsters. But today, the old lady which you can see in my first sketch came, sat at the table near to us and I heard the Beau say to her:

“Hola Guapissima!”

Well… can somebody tell me why he never calls me “Guapissima” then? And not even “Guapa”? Is it because Kevin is with me and looks quite dangerous, somehow? I hope so! But I am stressed now, and I feel ugly, and you will excuse me if the hands on the sketches are not well-done today!

At least it´s good that Cantueso is not around!!!

 

Woman with Wine Glass
Man with Mobile
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