I’m trying to find some surgical tubing. It looks like this stuff http://www.scubadivingstore.co.uk/surgical-tubing-thick-p-374.html It has several uses apart from being used in hospitals. I need it to use as an exercise device to help sort out a dodgy shoulder (as recomended by physios everywhere). I also have some other aches and pains this would be useful for.
So anyway I’ve been looking in some of the ferreterias, two of the diving places in Cala Vedella and also in the farmacias in Ibiza town. I used the Google translator which told me it’s called “tubo quirúrgico” but I’ve been getting the feeling from the responses I’ve been getting that people down here don’t actually call it that.
I walk into a shop and ask for tubo quirúrgico. I am then asked what I want it for. Rather than try to explain what exactly I want it for (my Spanish is not good and I didn’t have a lot of time) I ask them again if they have it or not. They then tell me no they don’t have any and none can tell me where to get it (so why do they ask what I want it for because they are certainly not trying to be helpful?).
The last farmacia I went to today asked me why I wanted it. I had a feeling he didn’t have any but I reluctantly repeated my question about wether or not he had any. He said yes. So I asked if I could see it. He said I needed to tell him what I wanted it for. I demonstrated roughly what thickness I needed. He then asked me again what I needed it for. I told him what it was for and then he said he didn’t understand what I meant. I knew then that he didn’t actually have any and he was just being nosey so I thought I would waste his time seeing as he had wasted mine so I explained what it was for again and what size I needed. He said that farmacias in Spain don’t stock it. So I said but you told me earlier that you do have it. He then said he didn’t understand what I meant. It all got a little heated after that. It’s bad enough going around with a sore shoulder without people like that. Anyone would think I was in to trying to con drugs out of them or something.
So anyway, anyone know what they call it down here and where I might be able to get 10 metres of it?
So anyway I’ve been looking in some of the ferreterias, two of the diving places in Cala Vedella and also in the farmacias in Ibiza town. I used the Google translator which told me it’s called “tubo quirúrgico” but I’ve been getting the feeling from the responses I’ve been getting that people down here don’t actually call it that.
I walk into a shop and ask for tubo quirúrgico. I am then asked what I want it for. Rather than try to explain what exactly I want it for (my Spanish is not good and I didn’t have a lot of time) I ask them again if they have it or not. They then tell me no they don’t have any and none can tell me where to get it (so why do they ask what I want it for because they are certainly not trying to be helpful?).
The last farmacia I went to today asked me why I wanted it. I had a feeling he didn’t have any but I reluctantly repeated my question about wether or not he had any. He said yes. So I asked if I could see it. He said I needed to tell him what I wanted it for. I demonstrated roughly what thickness I needed. He then asked me again what I needed it for. I told him what it was for and then he said he didn’t understand what I meant. I knew then that he didn’t actually have any and he was just being nosey so I thought I would waste his time seeing as he had wasted mine so I explained what it was for again and what size I needed. He said that farmacias in Spain don’t stock it. So I said but you told me earlier that you do have it. He then said he didn’t understand what I meant. It all got a little heated after that. It’s bad enough going around with a sore shoulder without people like that. Anyone would think I was in to trying to con drugs out of them or something.
So anyway, anyone know what they call it down here and where I might be able to get 10 metres of it?