Strike a pose

I was watchin the sunset this evening whilst sat on the wall over lookin beach. To the left of me was the towering, the infamously grossly opulant, self proclaimed seven star hotel in the shape of a sail.

From numerous sources, I've heard that this hotel will never recoup any of its costs even if it ran at full occupancy and full rate for the next 40 years. However, every single time i pass the hotel, I always find hoards of tourists standing around in front, taking their token posed photos.

You used to be able to pay 200 dhs to go inside in exchange for vouchers which could be redeemed at the eye torchering bar on the top floor. The absolute quintessence of crassness.

I seemed to have developed this strange obsession of studying people's poses whilst they take their tourist photos. Particularly memorable poses i tend to find are from the subcontinent origin. For example; in front of the big sail hotel, there is a small roundabout. Numerous times i have seen them standing in the middle of the roundabout, both arms on hips in a superhero fashion, huge cheesy smiles to the count of three. All that was missing was the flowing red cape flapping in the wind.

The most oddly disturbing pose was in Bin Tutu shopping mall. Three mustached men, smiling gleefully, counting to three whilst posing in front of a huge poster featuring children which covers the windows of a shop yet to open.

Deeply alarming.