Story Time
While in Kathmandu I was looking at a pair of earrings and I asked the shop owner how much they were. He replied that they were 150 rupees and I told him I'd be back for them. The next day when I went to the shop, there was a different person standing and I asked how much, he told me they were 600 rupees! I was so confused, I said, "how can they be 600 rupees today when they were 150 yesterday?"
The shop attendant told me that I must have been mistaken and not pointed out the specific earrings I had wanted to the guy yesterday. These were indeed 600. (I knew that the man from the day before had pointed to all the earrings on one side and said these are all 150 and on the other side they were all 200). Either way, I decided not to fight and left the store. I went back again the next day and it was the original man. I asked him how much they were and he said 150.... ahhhh! I told him about the person from the day before and he called him over and told me it was his little brother and he doesn't know much about earrings, don't mind him. Very frustrating! I bought the earrings for 150 and that was the end of that.
That same day, I returned to another store that I had been at the previous day. The owners wife had told me she would give me a magnet that was 150 rupee for 100 rupee. When I put the magnet on the counter to buy, the owner told me it was 250 rupee! I absolutely lost it! I said, "WHAT! Your wife literally told me yesterday that she would give it to me for 100 rupee!"
I've never heard a louder, heartier laugh in my life. The shop owner could not contain himself. He said, "Now you understand Nepal! The most expensive it is is 250 rupee, the cheapest is 100 rupee. I would take what I can get".
We all had a good laugh.
I paid 100 rupee for the magnet and we headed out.
The shop attendant told me that I must have been mistaken and not pointed out the specific earrings I had wanted to the guy yesterday. These were indeed 600. (I knew that the man from the day before had pointed to all the earrings on one side and said these are all 150 and on the other side they were all 200). Either way, I decided not to fight and left the store. I went back again the next day and it was the original man. I asked him how much they were and he said 150.... ahhhh! I told him about the person from the day before and he called him over and told me it was his little brother and he doesn't know much about earrings, don't mind him. Very frustrating! I bought the earrings for 150 and that was the end of that.
That same day, I returned to another store that I had been at the previous day. The owners wife had told me she would give me a magnet that was 150 rupee for 100 rupee. When I put the magnet on the counter to buy, the owner told me it was 250 rupee! I absolutely lost it! I said, "WHAT! Your wife literally told me yesterday that she would give it to me for 100 rupee!"
I've never heard a louder, heartier laugh in my life. The shop owner could not contain himself. He said, "Now you understand Nepal! The most expensive it is is 250 rupee, the cheapest is 100 rupee. I would take what I can get".
We all had a good laugh.
I paid 100 rupee for the magnet and we headed out.
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