Live the same

It all started pretty well—we left our scooters at the parking lot of Central Medical Punta Cana (where I was hospitalized with malaria… or maybe not malaria, I still don’t know) and started walking.

There were five of us, all with cameras, of course. By the way, Dominicans love posing for photos, even though they never ask how to get them later! We kept walking down this one street, passing by a kid’s birthday party happening right by the road—it was super lively and fun.

On the way, I ran into some mechanics I already knew—the ones who had fixed my moped before. Then we crossed a “line” I had never gone past before.

To our left, there was a big fenced parking lot full of tourist buses. A lot of them belonged to the company I worked for, and I even spotted a driver I knew. He walked up to the fence and, looking surprised, asked, - What the hell are you guys doing here?

But by that time, three people from our group had already walked way ahead, so Alex and I hurried to catch up with them

Three photographers went ahead, and Alex and I fell behind. We had already walked quite a distance, and the houses around us began to look more like abandoned construction sites, where people actually lived.

A local guy approached Alex. After a moment, Alex took a few photos, and they started talking. That's when I approached them and heard what they were saying. To my surprise, they spoke English, although Alex spoke pretty decent Spanish.

The whole conversation boiled down to the fact that the local guy wanted to get money for the photos (even though he approached Alex and asked to take his photo). He said: "You're shooting for a magazine! You're getting paid (oh, if only it were true! 😂), so I should get paid too - 100 bucks per photo."

Alex just calmly deleted the photos, showed that he had no more photos, and we moved on...

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Carlos Spegazzini, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina

For the photographers or that guy who was pestering us?)

It's a good way to earn an income!
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Oh, there are such cases too. 
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