I just saw something that broke my heart

[Guava Jelly]

I was in the lobby of the All inclusive resort i am staying in.
I have a shot of high dollar tequila and a glass of wine in front of me and I am watching this girl mop the floors and the look on her face just hit me...Maybe it's the boose i don't know but i wanted to freaken cry.
There she was small in stature wearing a white uniform/dress just mopping away well i gave her a tip and told her in what crappy spanish i know Thank you for good work.
I must be buzzed because my eyes are watering as i type this.
:(
ok enough venting

[LynneSin]

1. What Tequila

I love my tequila!

[Guava Jelly]

4. Don Julio

Are you made of stone?

[Sequoia]

2. Pat, pat....there, there now, you're going to be okay.

Good karma's coming your way.

[Guava Jelly]

5. I'm ok

injustice just fucks with me sometimes.

[Sequoia]

25. Totally!

And she probably makes minimum wage, no health insurance, crappy place to live, can't afford good food for her children, or shoes and winter coat.

[dropkickpa]

33. What is even sadder is that

she is probably doing a lot better than most of the people in her neighborhood, and is possibly the breadwinner of her family, even if she still lives with her parents and has no kids.

[MissMillie]

3. someone said tequila

:hi:

you're buzzed. But it's nice that you recognize her work.

[Guava Jelly]

7. yes i am buzzed

But i am still human :)

[Whoa_Nelly]

6. One time when in Nogales with my son (age 13 at the time)

and we were leaving to walk back across the border, a little girl, no more than 2-3 years old, came up to him trying to get him to buy some little 2-piece Chiclets packs for 25-cents each. My son said no thank you to her, and then put the only money he had on him into her little money cup, a total of about $8, and then gently patted her on her head. Then, he turned to me with tears in his eyes and asked me, "Why, Mom? It shouldn't be this bad. She's too little."

Yes...it is heartbreaking, GoPsUx. :hug:

[Guava Jelly]

8. I would be so proud of him

As i am sure you are!

[Whoa_Nelly]

14. Indeed I am :-)

He's a wonderful father of two.
My son is fluent in Spanish, and is determined that his children be also. He also is raising them as I did him: It's not your race/cultural heritage that's important. It's the quality of who you are as a person that counts.

Little Grand-Nelly and little Grand-Whoa!

[Guava Jelly]

23. You just rock!

You did good!
But you don't need a tequila buzzed stranger on the internet to tell you that.
And on that word
I need to go out and enjoy the rest of my vacation because i leave in the a.m.
p.s.
You are a great mom

[SteppingRazor]

9. You're at that thin line between too drunk and not drunk enough...

since you can't go back at this point, my advice is to drink more tequila. You'll feel better.

[Guava Jelly]

12. Great advice

Or maybe not. :7
I am ok
I guess i just have a habit of empathizing with people.
I guess thats why i am not a republican

[ceile]

10. Aw, sweetie...

I know it's hard to see the poverty there. But I tell you what, you probably just made her day with that tip. Smile through the tears-you did a good thing.:hug:

[Guava Jelly]

13. I know

Shit just hits me sometimes.
thank you :)

[Zuiderelle]

11. Wait. You're drunk, in a hotel, and you give a money to someone you don't know,

who is just doing her job? I think I would have smacked you. :shrug:

You must give out a lot of tips at McDonalds.

[Guava Jelly]

16. It's a third world country without plumbing

People here are dirt poor.
Their currency is less accepted in their country then american dollars.
I would just say to you
And smack me still if you wish.
But don't judge a man until you have walked a mile in his shoes..

This is how many live here

[Zuiderelle]

21. Yes, I know all that.

Do you realize that your "all-inclusive" resort (what does that mean anyway) exploits these poor people, so that people like you can have incredibly cheap vacations they cannot get in the United States?

[Guava Jelly]

24. Yes i do

So i guess i shouldn't have came here and tipped many locals close to a weeks wage so i could vacation in florida.
I'm sorry but i don't get your logic.
I doubt Nancy Pelosi would either.
I'm off now to exploit more locals :sarcasm:

[Zuiderelle]

26. Sorry, but I balk when someone brags about the money they give away.

Just give it away already. Bragging about it just seems tacky. :shrug:

[Guava Jelly]

27. I wasn't bragging

I was being sincere

[redwitch]

28. This post of yours is tacky

n/t

[LostinVA]

32. The poster wasn't bragging -- he's a good guy, we all know that

Jesus Christ.

[Zuiderelle]

37. I can only base my opinion on what I read.

I've seen him post a bunch of stuff in the lounge about being girl-crazy and stuff, but other than that, I don't know who he really is, anymore than anyone else here.

[LostinVA]

39. I know him from here, from what I read -- and he's a good guy

His "girl crazy" stuff is harmless.

[Zuiderelle]

40. fwiw, I didn't say he was a bad guy.

Truly, I was just responding to the thread with my honest reaction. I'll concede that my reaction might have come from my own experience of being hit on by drunk men thinking they're doing me a favor, and by seeing drunk men hit on other women, thinking they are doing them a favor.

Peace.

[redwitch]

29. This post is tacky too.

I begin to see a pattern here...

[LostinVA]

34. I've been seeing it for a long time

Like since Day One.

[Zuiderelle]

36. Sorry, but I don't understand.

You've been seeing me being tacky? Can you tell me where? Was it when I wasn't offended by a thread that contained a poll about famous homosexuals? Or was it where I was offended by a homophobic thread claiming that gay people were vile, where I defended against it? Or where? I'm not keen on vague innuendo like "I've been seeing it for a long time."

In this case, I simply reacted to what I thought was offensive. A drunk man in a posh resort giving money to someone, then coming here to brag about it. It's the way I read it, and the way I responded. Please point out ANYTHING I've posted here that shows some sort of pattern that you are insinuating.

[bridgit]

15. look at the upside, now you'll be able to recognize them as they mop the floors...

of all inclusive state-side american resorts :thumbsup:

[Guava Jelly]

17. thats true

But they get paid better in the U.S.

[sundog]

18. mcdonalds trips will also be a blast

[Midlodemocrat]

19. What a sweet thing to do.

:hug:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

20. I usually leave a tip for the maid

unless the room isn't clean.

It's a hell of a job.

[Flaxbee]

22. it is difficult to see, buzzed or no.

you're a nice guy, GoPsUx - and if you can empathize with people and/or other creatures, life can be very difficult sometimes, but you probably wouldn't want it any other way.

I hate it when - in this country (or anywhere, really, but I have seen it often here) - I see an elderly woman waiting tables, or an elderly man bussing tables or mopping the goddamn floor. Perhaps it's by choice (right), or perhaps its just because they can't afford to live otherwise. I guess I just see my mother or father or grandmother struggling in these unknown (to me) faces and it makes me so damn mad.

[sundog]

30. you're on vacation man

get drunk & go get laid

[SeattleGirl]

31. I think you did a very kind and wonderful thing, tequila or no....

:hug: :loveya:

[Arugula Latte]

35. Aw. You did good.

That kind of stuff gets me, too. I've been to Mexico a few times, and I always have an internal dialogue in my head about feeling guilty vs. well, at least I'm getting some $$ into their local economy.

I remember the first time I went down there. I was on a Spring Break trip in college. We all got on a local bus, and I suddenly saw this group of priviledged, drunken, obnoxious American kids through the eyes of the hardworking locals just trying to get home to their families and I wanted to disappear ...

Later I remember bargaining on the beach for some piece of jewelry and I suddenly realized I was bickering over a dollar. What was a dollar to me? Sheesh.

The whole experience makes you re-evaluate things.

[zanne]

38. But for the grace of God....

That could be any of us.