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The Incident with El Garrabo

Every day is a new adventure for me, here in Nicaragua! Today, something especially hilarious happened at the office of Mpowering People. 

Sometime in the afternoon, Gabriela came running and screaming from the bathroom, shouting " Ayeeee! Hay una garrobo!!" 

Ingrid and I started laughing like crazy, although I really had no idea what a garrobo was. We ran to the bathroom to investigate this "garrobo", and all of a sudden, an iguana about one foot long pops out of the sink! 

Ingrid goes absolutely nuts and runs away screaming, towards the office. At first, I was a bit curious about the iguana and stayed behind to stare at it. However, it jumped out of the sink and proceeded to CHASE me, its legs flailing around as it rapidly pursued me, all the way to the office. 

For some reason, El Garrobo decides to run into the office and terrorize Ingrid, who is terrified of iguanas. Both Ingrid and Gabriela reacted by jumping onto the desks, and I proceeded to join them. 




So there we were, three grown women, jumping around on top of the desks, alternating between screaming and laughing hysterically as El Garrobo ran around like a maniac, crashing into some boxes and eventually hiding behind the door. 

                        El Garrobo 

I wasn't sure why we were supposed to be afraid of this iguana, so I asked if iguanas bite, to which Ingrid responded with great conviction, ¡Si! 

For the next 10 minutes, as we waited for Ingrid's boss Harry to come save us from the iguana (she literally called him on her cell phone and explained that we were being terrorized by an iguana, were standing on top of the desks, and that he needed to come to the office right now!) Gabriela and I entertained ourselves by taking photos of Ingrid screaming and waving her arms. 

When Harry arrived, he simply threw a towel over the iguana and released it outside. It scurried away, never to return to the office again. (It's probably thinking, These humans are nuts!) 

Anyways, the moral of the story is:

If you are being chased by an iguana, make sure you don't leave the office door open! 







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Unknown said…
you know it's a great story when stout laughs and question your story haha
September 17, 2014 at 8:59 PM
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