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To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (28692)	3/24/2005 8:28:43 PM
From: X Y Zebra	Respond to of 306849

you can hire cheap labor..... -g

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (28692)	3/24/2005 9:08:03 PM
From: GraceZ	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

Claro, amiga! When I was down in the Dominican Republic on vacation this winter I noticed that one old man would come down to the beach every single day and climb among the rocks in the distance. He had a bag with him and he'd stop from time to time to put something in it. The rocks there are volcanic and if you slip on them you are liable to wind up with a pretty nasty gash. He'd spend hours crawling around on the outermost ones with waves crashing up near him. Seeing him there everyday made me very curious as to what he could be gathering that would make him take such risks. One day he walked along the beach past us and I stopped him to ask in my terrible Spanish what it was he was collecting. It took a while for him to understand what I was asking. I knew a few names en español for things I thought he might be gathering. Finally after the sort of charades that always accompany these kinds of exchanges where neither party knows enough of the other's language, he put his bag down, pulled everything out to reveal a small plastic bag. He pulls that out and unties it. He showed us what was inside, hermit crabs, about a couple dozen medium sized ones. Everybody smiled, I asked him what they were called in Spanish, he said it a few times until I could repeat it correctly, then he bundled up his bag again and we said our buenas. Then I started wondering what the going rate for hermit crabs was there and how anyone could survive on the income even in a place that is so cheap to live. What struck me was how happy this guy appeared to be.