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El
Salvador Autohotel |
| Decmber 27,
1999 - El Salvador |
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I
just don't get it! Is this just a place to park your auto?
Where's the freakin' office? I drove around the circular
interior of the drab cement complex several times and
all I could see were small garage spaces with a door inside
and a rolling metal garage door outside. "Where's the
office?" I asked the security guard with a big shotgun
and a nasty german shepard. My much improved Spanish was
not enough to comprehend the situation. "Are there rooms
here?" "Yes. You have to use the telephone." "But I'm
a traveller, I don't have a telephone." I drove out, still
mystified, looking for an office somewhere outside the
complex.
Nope. Nada. I was running out of options. I had already
been looking for a place to stay for forty-five minutes
and it was way after dark. I had to try again with my
heavily armed friend. He told me there was someone in
the office who spoke English. "What office? Where is the
office?" I said, not hiding my frustration. "On the telephone."
He repeated for the fifth time. He finally motioned for
me to come with him into a garage and through a door into
a small room. It was painted a fleshy pink color and there
was a huge mirror on the wall next to the bed. "Omigawd!
I'm in a whorehouse!!" I thought, as he handed me the
phone. The girl on the phone spoke english with a European
accent. She told me the room was $13 and that included
two beverages and that check-out time was 7:00am.(7:00am??)
Hmm. OK, I think I'm making progress. Then it got wierder.
I was unpacking and I heard a knock on the door. There
was no one at the door. There was no one at the garage
door. Was I hearing things? No. I heard it again, this
time with a girls muffled voice. "Omigawd!" I thought
again, "Is there a naked girl somewhere in my room?"
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No. A box in the corner with a hand! Just like the
Addams Family on TV! And it wanted my money! After
an explanation from Brigitte, the Austrian girl
on the phone, it all made perfect sense. This was
a place were Salvadorean couples come for discreet
sex. You can't bring your girlfriend home to Mom,
nor your mistress home to the wife. So you come
here. No one sees you, your partner, or your car!
Completely anonymous, with a free porno channel!
But alas, I'm here all by myself!
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