Had just prepared my breakfast and was on my way out on my balcony to enjoy it, looked up and froze. Here’s this guy, standing on top of the opposite seven storey building, on a 40 cm wide ledge thing sticking out from the corner of the building. Just like that, wearing his track pants, t-shirt and sneakers, and that’s it. Perhaps, it’s just me having gotten an extra fuzzy eye for safety from my working environment, but in this case I don’t think so. Even a daredevil, adrenaline junkie might have thought this one to be a border case. And as if this wasn’t enough, he’s holding on to a rope, lowering it down to his mates on the ground, who then wiggle around with it down there. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure out that you don’t need a massive pull to make the guy on the building loosing his balance. Even being some 30 meters away I was afraid of sneezing or dropping my cereals and scare the crazy man.
Next time I’ll try to snap out of the shook a bit quicker and sneak out my camera and take a picture. It would easily make those mass e-mails circulating with people using drilling machines in swimming pools and glad wrap as face protection.
In Northern Europe, and also in most other countries I’ve visited, there seem to be an unspoken, but well accepted, natural law which sets the relation between the amount of fabric in your swim wear and you age, or possibly body size. In general, the size of your bikini would be directly proportional to your age and size and at a certain combination of age and size; the bikini will turn into a bathing suit even. However, the Rio population has totally missed out on that. No bikinis or Speedos are too small, no body size is too big, no boobs are too low and no backs too hairy to show. But having said that – man, the people are beautiful over here!
Next time I’ll try to snap out of the shook a bit quicker and sneak out my camera and take a picture. It would easily make those mass e-mails circulating with people using drilling machines in swimming pools and glad wrap as face protection.
In Northern Europe, and also in most other countries I’ve visited, there seem to be an unspoken, but well accepted, natural law which sets the relation between the amount of fabric in your swim wear and you age, or possibly body size. In general, the size of your bikini would be directly proportional to your age and size and at a certain combination of age and size; the bikini will turn into a bathing suit even. However, the Rio population has totally missed out on that. No bikinis or Speedos are too small, no body size is too big, no boobs are too low and no backs too hairy to show. But having said that – man, the people are beautiful over here!
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