FAUX PAS

FAUX PAS

Falling and losing ones balance and in the process preventing one self from falling and blundering in the process. That is exactly the truth of the matter. But truth here is not at odds. It is cultural differences. 

What saved me practically has ruined me. In the process of gaining balance flailing arms reach out and the derriere of one of Guatemala oldest virgins is touched. She should have liked it! 


In the process of rectifying everything I have apologized five times, not more than that. In fact it seems a daily event.

Is it something in my use of Spanish or their belief that my grope was intentional?  Perhaps in Guatemala a maidens status as untouched is important. But in to-days reality that is hardly the case or an issue.

So here online I am once again apologizing. 

I am sorry 

 It was an accident

There was no intent to do this

An incident best forgotten to be placed in the bowels of time. The lower realms of reality. Your derriere is just not one I lust after.

Believe me with my experience of life I look to a derriere with more earthly attributes. 

• Derriere's with travel experience. 
• Derriere's with life experience. 
• Derriere's more touched than untouched. 

So getting to the bottom (no pun intended) of this issue, to be perfectly honest your derriere Senorita is a derriere that just does not fit into my idea of a derriere to be touched. 


What binds all this past thinking together, is that machismo attitude that we may always look but never touch before marriage. 

Of course afterwards that does not really change either, with wives as chattel rather than holding any equal status. They must ask their husbands permission to do anything outside of the home. 

To me this is a step into a distant path that our countries (north of Mexico) have evolved from. Women and men hold equal status in Canada. 

A derriere there accidentally touched would have perhaps provoke a slap, a smile or on the first apology everything would be settled and forgiven. 


But not in Guatemala. Here, there are strong cultural differences, that block any equality between women and men. Here a struggle exists for that equality where women and children are brutalized by husbands locked in ancient traditions. 

The slap of a derriere is thus an insult on the very fabric of these people who ideas are held in distant times. It takes change to make more change.


The next step in this archaic attitude will be either a visit from the police or a mob ready to hang me.


Again I am truly sorry for whatever this mishap has caused you.

It was an accident and I had no intent to slap that "untouched" derriere. Yes the very through of doing it is against my lowest thinking. I am now all bottomed out for excuses.