Monday, January 17, 2011

Back in Denver...and Couch Surfing...

I really wanted to know what's it like to couch surf in the city where I live most of the time. Besides, I needed time to find a place after traveling and couch surfing for months. Denver...and I just came here at the right time...during a blizzard on November 2009. My first host...he wasn't too bad but I was not too happy with him either.. but it all went a lot better after that. Do you want to know the problem with my first host? here it is...
After I got back I wanted to relax a bit and rest. One thing that gets on my nerves is when a host will ask you what you are going to do...give me some time to sit down!! and during a blizzard that was not considerate. Now he had two roommates...and wow the girl..I don't know how she was even on couchsurfing.com! She never smiled and she was a bitch. My host had already accepted that I stay at his place and she decided that I was not going to stay while I was on my way there! I was probably in Nevada when I received a text from her. I told the host who had accepted my request,who is her roommate, that I was already on my way. So he talked to her and she changed her mind. Then when I got there, we just started a conversation that did not really go anywhere.I told her I admired the guy that the movie "Into The Wild" was based on. She said he was just a spoiled brat. The guy died in the wild, what has this bitch ever done that gives her a right to say harsh things about him? and not to mention not having any respect for people who have passed away.
The male host started acting like a dick the second day I got there. He took me to a couchsurfing meeting, got real drunk and he had the bright idea that since there was so much snow around, it would be fun to speed, so he started speeding! with me in the fucking car! what is worse, after about 10 minutes of stupid speeding his piece of shit car broke down and we had to walk for an hour to get home.It was around 10 or 11 PM and it was very cold, like 10 degrees or even colder than that. All because the bright guy decided to speed. Oh we would have been home sooner, but the guy decided it would be fun to play in the snow on the way home. All I could thing during the walk home was "fuck!", but anyway, as much as this guy goes to couch surfing meetings,maybe he will learn something someday about treating PEOPLE, not just couch surfers, with some respect, and get this" I wore tennis shoes to Denver, and during the walk home, my feet were freezing from walking in the snow, I mentioned this to the guy and he said "yeah wearing tennis shoes in this weather is not very smart" well neither is speeding a piece of shit car when the snow is up to your knees!!
Anyway the host decided on the second day, and I suspect it was her influence,that I was not going to stay home during the day because they were all going to be gone, and to top it all off, she took me to a restaurant where shrimp and expensive meals were served, expecting me to get myself something from there. I really wondered the entire time...which was two nights...how did this fat, unpleasant bitch ever decided to get an account on couchsurfing? so she can torture people? Anyway, fuck her...

After that, my other three hosts I had in Denver were wonderful...I stayed with a single girl who let me borrow keys to her apartment...I stayed in a nice house for two weeks without my host even being there because he was in Argentina. That was great...it was more like house sitting but it was still great and it felt amazing that someone could treat me with respect and so much trust even without knowing much about me. I watered this guy's plants, got his mail for him and even replaced anything I had taken as far as food (which he offered).

My couchsurfing experience in Denver started out as a bad experience, but I've had worse, and anyway, it ended in a very nice way, with a great host.

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