That said, this post was meant to be amusing, and I certainly am not advocating telling random women that you’d like to tap it. I was more referring to my particular situation and that fact that I do not have culote, but rather a sexy culito. As I said, a joke!

As a confidence relationship you could say some stuff to your couple but it doesn’t mean you are free to say that to a girl in the street (and that’s my point) because not all of them could be happy to hear that… actually most of the girls i know hate when a stranger pays them a compliment

However, even if it is, I was more referring to admiring your girlfriend’s culo. In CR, ticas understand that culote means sexy, but to English speakers, it just sounds like an insulting translation for “huge [ugly] ass”. A cultural difference, for sure!

dont agree… you could die if you want to look like a player with some girls… actually there is a law that could send you to jail for 2 years, if a girl thinks that your “compliment” was understood as an insult she can make a formal complaint you ARE in troubles.

@Christina: Nope, not so itsy bitsy!

@dreamweaver: Well, everyone I knew was either at work or out, so I had to deal with it on my own. There was no way I was going to leave a tarantula to wander about my shower and, eventually, my home. As they say, drastic times call for drastic measures!

@Talia: Thank you! And how nice to know that I’m not the only one with the terrifying arachnids in my home. Heh. Good luck with your paper, chiquita.

@Brian: I’ve made the “embarazada” mistake, too… I was 16 at the time and meeting my then-boyfriend’s friends for the first time. I first made the mistake of telling them I was exitada (”horny”, not “excited”) to meet them, and when I realized what I had said, out slipped that I was embarazada (again, that’s “pregnant”, not “embarrassed”) for my mistake. Yeah, that meeting went real well.

@Jehan: Well, if you’re talking email, it’s just erin [at] gringuitica [dot] com, but if you’d like my mailing address, just shoot me a line. I used to hate fall, you know, because my parents made me rake leaves. When I got older and moved out, I liked autumn very much because it was cool and beautiful, and no raking was necessary!

@Esmit: Eww, no! I knew that guayabas had worms (it still weirds me out to scoop them out!), but not cas! Now I wonder if the chunky bits really were just pit and skin. That makes me want to vomit…

@Darwin: I think I like “gringuitica moments”… has a bit of a ring to it! To clear a few things up, though: I don’t remember MacGyver because I never watched it. I was too involved with my Barbie dolls! Also, the snapping of a photo was not for documentation purposes, but rather because I thought my only hope might be to snap the photo, upload it to the Internet, and make Fabi look at it to tell me whether it would kill me or not. In the end, I opted not to do this because I was afraid it would crawl out of the tub and into my bed before I got a response.

Thank you all so much for reading and commenting. I can’t tell you how much it is appreciated!