Not meant for internal use

Not meant for internal use

Dominican Republic…I know it’s not THE south, but it’s south nonetheless. It was the end of vacation and my husband and I were staying at this casino in the capital. The old man had won some money gambling and he decided that he’d pay for a spa treatment for me (I’m a sucker for those things!). I opted for an exfoliation treatment since I was a little scaly from the sun. I walked into the spa and the woman who greeted me asked me to change out of my clothes and into a robe.

I should’ve known that something just wasn’t right when I walked into the treatment room and it reminded me of an operating room. It was solid white, circular, and had a white ceramic table in the center. Conzulea (the lady who would be working on me) didn’t speak English. I didn’t speak Spanish…very well…okay, at all. She motioned for me to remove my robe. She was holding a towel, so I assumed that she was going to lay them across me while on the table, so I could maintain some sense of dignity. Nope. I ended up 100% naked on the table. I started giggling a little bit and perhaps that’s when she misinterpreted my nervous laughter for sheer bliss.

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