USA! USA!

i'm leaving for the airport in a few hours and (unlike my last trip to North Carolina) i foresee no aborted courtrooms or sad motel rooms. but this is beside the point.

the point is yesterday afternoon i attended a (small) mixer, and a friend told me that she participated in the pummeling of a 19 year old Spaniard while riding a subway car in Catalonia (like you do). this young hooligan (the Spaniard, not my friend) was frisked against the wall by a cadre of rampaging summer abroad students (some of whom were broads) in retaliation for a pilfering earlier in the evening. apparently this same Spaniard (y sus amigos) had lured my countrymen into a dark bar under the auspices (not that type of auspices) of free drinks. once inside they were waylaid and relieved of their various (portable) Apple products.

the iPod was never recovered, but (thankfully) the incident stopped just short of a body cavity search...