Napoli, more like Crapoli

I ran this morning. Got back, made my breakfast, went to shower, and there was barely a trickle of water. So the shower consisted of the basics. There’s an actual order of importance of things to wash on the human body and most people get the order wrong, did you know that?
First, your ass. Yes, keep your ass clean! Absolutely the most important thing. Then, your junk, right, ass and genitals. Why, because that’s where you eliminate waste. You need to eliminate waste efficiently. Next, your feet! Keeping your feet clean and free from all manner of nastiness is massively important. If you can’t walk, you can’t survive at all. You have to be able to move about to do whatever tasks you must do, and I don’t know about you, but I can’t walk on my hands. For me the next is teeth, tongue, mouth. Have to take food in, right? Now, wash your face, then your pits, then the rest of your body. Good hygiene is important in any situation. Not to be inoffensive to other humans (although in the civilized world that’s massively important), but because if you have poor hygiene, then you’ll get sick, if you get sick, you aren’t able to perform at your best. So right now, I got all the most important bits cleaned, even had enough water to wash my hair, I hope they have this fixed by tomorrow morning.
Meanwhile, I have to go pay an electric bill I’ve never seen. This Libertarianism-run-amok down here is awful. I’m sure the reason the water isn’t working is that the slumlord who owns this place, and the surely thousands like her in this region, isn’t paying their fucking taxes. I’d say it’s like living in rural West Virginia, but I think that’d be insulting to the people of West Virginia and how well their communities run, relative to this shit.  Don’t get me wrong, there are some wonderful individual people here, and I’ve met many of them, but shit is massively broken, and blaming someone like me, who comes in and tries to help, and treating me like shit, breaking the law, not letting me claim residence, charging me for things without letting me see the bill. This is bullshit, and you’re only killing your community. Because people like me are driven out by this. How could I have a life here? It’s absolutely untenable.
I found out the joke that is the Circumvesuviana is a private company. Well, that explains the absolute shit condition of everything. Apparently, the company is completely broke too. they don’t seem to care, and the people don’t bother either. They jump turnstiles, the staff doesn’t stop them. The system needs to be nationalized, it needs serious upgrades, not only in equipment, but in revenue collection. Half the time they don’t even make me pay for a ticket at the biglietteria because they don’t even have change for a €5!
Let’s not even start talking about how people drive, or any of that shit. Needless to say, nothing works around here. When you get upset about it, it’s your fault for thinking things shouldn’t be this way. So I go to pay my €140, and forfeit my overtime pay for the month on the landlady’s word about what I owe in an electric bill. Fuck this shit. What makes it worse is when someone else from the outside legitimately does make a mistake, and then they use that as an excuse to condemn all of us. But that speaks to their jingoism, their racism, and their general bigotry around here. Once again, this is not an indictment of all people around here. I’ve met some truly wonderful human beings, and I would not trade anything in the world for having met them. But the rest of this is just shit, and the whole region should be ashamed of themselves. Basically, when I post on TEFL sites about this experience, I’m not going to be kind about the living here part. They really need to get their shit together, put it in a shit backpack, take it to the shit store and sell it. Wow, I’m angry today. Alright, time to go take care of this shit.

Have fun, keep running, and remember; if Gil can run then so can you!


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