Frogmarched

The hotel venue for our meeting this week is right on the beach. It’s nice to stare out during the coffee breaks and when filling in risk mitigation tables with 15 columns per identified risk gets too much.

From the mundane to the unexpected… I was standing by one of the doorways talking to my colleague Serra when from the restaurant area there came a commotion. A young woman smashed something in anger and jumped into the pool to evade the security guards who sprang into action. She was eventually forced to get out of the pool and was frogmarched to a back room where I hope she wasn’t treated harshly. The incident was minor but I saw coverage of it online later. The woman was a masseuse who a guest at the hotel, a pilot, had spoken to before his arrival and arranged to meet. After they’d done their bizniz he only gave her 500 meticais (about 8 or 9 dollars’ worth) instead of the promised 100 dollars. Her anger was justified.

Apparently he’d sheepishly run over to give her the correct amount after she’d been apprehended. And I was pleased to see the public’s comments siding with the woman for having been wronged, and not judging her profession. Vindication.

And we went back to our dry workshop session.