Saturday night in Manuel Antonio we drank at the hostel for awhile before Sarah and I decided we wanted to go to the club. Friday night we had wanted to and it just didnt work out so Saturday, also being Sarahs last night in Costa Rica, was the night!
We jumped on a bus with our friend Rachel to go into Quepos, the nearby town with the clubs. Unfortunately we all only had about 5 US dollars on us and drinks-entrances to clubs can get kind of expensive.
We hop off at the first bar and go in, sans entrance, and buy a 4 dollar drink each which means we are screwed for the rest of the night. So realizing we couldnt get anything else here, we walked to another bar. They told us it was like 5 dollars to get in so after some serious begging and pleading they let us in. When we got in and realized there were 2 other people in the bar and that was it, we had a good laugh. So we set off in search of some kind of alcoholic beverage for 1,000 colones..or 2 dollars. Thinking we were 3 white girls, this should be easy we told the bartender our story. What did he say..you can buy water, and thats it. Thankfully after some serious schmoozing he picked up a giant lime green super soaker and shot some kamikazee like beverage down our throats which officially got the night rolling!! After that we ran into the server from our hostel, an Australian we ended up calling cabbage and a Nico turned Tico...all of whom were delighted to keep our fists full of beers.
At some point in the night we left, ate some pizza and ended up back at the club. We were having a blast dancing to the techo infused American music and probably would have been out til all hours of the night untillll....
Rachel grabs me and says Can you get the gum out of my hair? Apparently some boy grabbed her arm to dance and she said no so he straight up threw his gum into her hair. How nice.
Rachel and I go to the bathroom for literally 3 minutes and come out to find Sarah saying three guys came up to her and groped her when we left. So I turn around and make a face like is this serious!? in the direction of the boys she said touched her and do you want to know what happens? The adult male, in front of probably 10 other adult makes, walks up to me, puts his hands on my shoulders and shoves me. Seriously.
I am getting freaked because what do I do? At home, you make a big deal and any single man in that bar will kick his ass for even thinking to push a female. Here...not so much. So I grab the girls and say we need to leave. We get outside and his friend comes up to us and says oh sorry, hes really drunk. When we start to explain to him what happened and how in all of our countries (Canada, Australia and America) that is NOT ok he pretty much told us its best if we leave. Unbelievable.
The Nico turned Tico we were with says oh yeah sorry hes a street guy, theyre different...that stuff happens all the time. Im furious because I cannot believe that just happened. What made me more upset was the fact that I couldnt do anything about it because I didnt know what he would do. The police here dont do shit and its not abnormal for guys, especially these street guys, to be packing heat. Its frustrating to have to be physically groped and pushed by someone you dont know and to not be able to do a damn thing about it.
Needless to say we hopped right in a cab and went home.
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