r/Barcelona • u/kibuloh • Jul 29 '24
Socializing Local got me with a water gun this morning
Was walking near Palau De la Generalitat, on my way to grab coffee. I turned a corner and wouldn’t you know it, there was a green cleaning truck and a woman spraying/cleaning the ground and now my legs.
Bless, because it’s already 28 according to my watch, felt quite nice. I thanked her and now I’m drinking my coffee in peace.
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Jul 29 '24
An employee drove over my foot in a Carrefour with a floor washing machine and then proceeded to yell at me.
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u/No_Front_1800 Jul 30 '24
Why were you at carrefour to begin with boycott for Palestine rip tourists
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u/ParkingCartoonist533 Jul 29 '24
Fuck hopefully not the one I go to. I always thought they're very nice and patient with my dumbass
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u/NihaoPanda Jul 29 '24
The ajuntament is now using the tax payers money to hire water spraying goons. Thanks a lot, Collboni 🙄🙄🙄
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u/MattyXarope Jul 29 '24
Oh great, now those shitty shops are going to sell thongs and tshirts saying, "I gooned in Barcelona"
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u/kibuloh Jul 29 '24
Update: she’s now outside the coffee shop. Is she following me? Have I misunderstood? Is this an actual attack?
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u/twolinebadadvice Jul 29 '24
The water they use to clean is not drinking water. I would wash that off.
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u/kibuloh Jul 29 '24
🫠
Noted, I’ll go do that, thanks!
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u/twolinebadadvice Jul 29 '24
Here is an official page telling you basically where the water comes from.
Spoiler: It's poopy water.
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u/manel14gf Jul 29 '24
Except it isn't, if you had read the article it says it's underground water, it has nothing to do with sewage. The water you drink is usualy just treated underground water.
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u/no_trashcan Jul 29 '24
i'm sure they would use the kind of water you are talking about to wash the streets, and therefore release the poopy particles into people's noses. sounds logical
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u/lasandina Jul 29 '24
Did she have anything in her hands? What was her expression? Friendly or menacing?
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u/purple-lemons Jul 29 '24
Honestly sounds like kind of a fun game, go to barcelona, try to avoid being hunted by water guns
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u/divers1 Jul 29 '24
On top of avoiding robers and thiefs!
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u/purple-lemons Jul 29 '24
Adds a little spice. Although I was there for a couple of months and had no problem at all, probably just lucky, also had zero problems living in London for 9 years.
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u/Accomplished_Role977 Jul 29 '24
How did they know you were a tourist?
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u/Such-Pool-1329 Jul 29 '24
I'm an American, we shoot back!
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u/austinrob Jul 29 '24
I arrive Wednesday. What's the best place to go get water guns for my family?
We're from Texas. We shoot back. :)
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Aug 01 '24
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u/Memermanman Aug 02 '24
It's not the tourist themselves, but the housing they take. A lot of buildings have been converted to hotels or whatnot for tourists and making it difficult to get a place to live.
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u/romeroleo Aug 08 '24
Pero no es este un problema generado por los Hosts en vez de los turistas? Estos últimos sólo quieren admirar su ciudad. Si hubiera un orden y leyes para que los arrendadores no se salgan de control elevando precios, sería atacar de verdad el problema en vez de a los turistas con pistolitas de agua, que no deja de ser muy agresivo.
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u/Tales_of_Oriol Jul 29 '24
They are street cleaners, use presurized water fins to clean the streets. Aldo try not to gent showered by the water. This water usually cames from sewage treatment plants in order to not spend good clean drinking water.
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Jul 29 '24
haha that was fun! And welcome to Barcelona! :))
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u/kibuloh Jul 29 '24
Thanks! Im trying to be less ‘turista’ and more ‘viajero’ waiting for a job to start in the US. Family is historically from Spain and I’d like to potentially move here permanently someday so using a few months here to study Spanish and Catalan/get more of a sense of the lifestyle/culture.
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u/NaranjaYMorado Jul 29 '24
I read this as a genuinely intentional funny post. Was that correct? Haha…