Fouling up someone else´s country…
Yesterday afternoon I saw an elderly woman let her little black dog do a huge shit on the pavement of a busy street near the Biosfera Shopping Center, Puerto del Carmen, and then nonchalantly walk on without cleaning it up. I accosted her, asking her in Spanish if she could please pick up the dog mess, in the most non-aggressive manner possible. She obviously didn’t speak the lingo and I realised she was German, so I said the same in German. She answered “oh well, you see little dog nuggets in the street all the time”, and I said “well, maybe you could start setting a good example?”
She then just “tutted” and walked away. I was FUMING. So I quickly went back, got out a tissue and picked up the dog turd and put it in a small plastic bag, hoping that I would still be able to catch up with her. Luckily, she was standing outside the Spar supermarket a little way down the road, where I walked up to her, saw that she had a few shopping bags standing at her feet, and I took this opportunity to shove the dog shit into one of those shopping bags saying “Here you go. Prezzie for you.” (in German), and walked off.
What do you think? Will this teach her to pick up her dog´s shit next time, at least when there are lots of people around, which there were at the time? Or is she just going to continue with this disgusting behaviour? I really wish I had all of this on video because then she would be liable to a nice fine…
Another thing that pisses me off about this behaviour is that foreigners like her a.) don´t even bother learning the language and b.) get away doing stuff like this in the foreign country they´re living in. No doubt, she wouldn´t dare to do this in Germany!
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