Sunday, 13 May 2012

Need to avoid single old men hosts..

So anyway, this host whose name has slipped my memory takes me out for Greek food. He apparently goes there a lot so the owner knew him, so they were talking in German about how I'm a couchsurfer and im cycling around and yada yada. Host told Greek guy that I'm originally from new York so he asked what my background was so I said Italian, so the guy asked if I speak Italian (in Italian) and I said no so then he asked hablo espaƱol and I said un poquito and then he asked if I spoke German, then French in their respective languages and I said no to both lol. While we were waiting for the food, host told me he messaged dirk from arnhem, asking if I was trustworthy to host. He said I was no problem. But I thought it was strange he picked dirk out of my references since I had more recent ones than him, but maybe he saw another old man living alone and thought he would be the best to confide in. I thought it was a bit weird that he told me he "did a background check" on me. Not that I don't blame him, I am a stranger after all, but why tell me? Lol So when dinner came out we took it to go and ate it in his filthy kitchen. Then he started telling me stories about how he used to cycle tour in the 70s and 80s in days before cell phones and gps and couchsurfing. So he said sometimes people would notice he was touring so they would talk to him while he was on the bike and offer him a place to stay, so he would accept. But he told me this story about when he was in France he was waiting at a red light and a man in a car pulled up next to him and asked if he was touring and he said yes and the guy asked if he had somewhere to stay for the night but host said no, so the French guy offered him to stay with him for the night. He went back to Frenchies place and the guy kept offering him beer. My host said no but accepted coffee. The next thing he knew, he woke up the next morning at the train station with all his stuff and with a sore dick!! So obviously that French guy drugged him, had his way with him and dumped him.! People are Freaking outrageous. Well at least he didn't kill him, and he left him with his bike and stuff. So he was a considerate asshole. He told me more stories about his cycling travels when he was younger, it made me really appreciate these hosting network websites!! So after dinner I had a shower. I first had to remove the suitcase that was sitting in the bathtub! And the showerhead had no hook to put it on to, to stay put, so I had to use it detached, and there was no shower curtain, so yeah, water got all over the floor! So after the shower,I used one of his many computers in such a small space to look up directions for tomorrow. There was a route that followed a railway track nearly the whole way to cologne but he warned me that sometimes those tracks aren't paved. But I decided I would risk it! Then I put the finishing touches to my costume, which entailed cutting the black fabric to go around the aluminum foil to look like a tail. Then  after chatting some more I got into his daughters bed and tried to go to sleep but because it was actually all one room, with just a curtain separating the "girls room" from his room, he kept asking me questions, and played computer games loudly. So I ended up going to bed late, but at least I was warm in a comfortable bed!

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