lkwalker wrote:Pam wrote:Way to go BE, a good haggler you are
I never try to haggle, I probably could have saved a fortune over my lifetime, I'm always afraid I will offend
..."Tea?"
"Yes, two cubes."
"Two?? So what, ten of you sit in temple all morning plotting about how to steal from a poor merchant?"
"Listen, Ali Baba, your camel has three legs and your mother has one hand."
...and so it goes.
True story. Back in my college days a friend from High School went to SUNY Maritime. SUNY Maritime is a NY state school that is a naval academy. Most people take engineering there. So, every summer they get on a naval ship and have to work it and go to 3-4 ports of call. When my buddy gets home his first summer, his mother has a BBQ. A few of us show up - my buddy's bro (Let's call my buddy "D" and his bro "J"), my friend "D" and my other friend "M".
We've all known each other for at least a decade. M and I are Jews. M's grandparents survived the holocaust with the numbers to prove it. D is a big Greek kid and 1st generation american. The brothers D and J are Polish/German. So, D is telling us how one of the ports of call was Greece. He bought a ring there for his mother. The guy he bought it from asked for X amount of Drakmas and D went to give it to him. The guy said, "No, haggle!" D and J's mother said, "Oh yes, well you know those Greeks are worse than the Jews when it comes to that."
D, M and I all burst out laughing. HAHAHAAHHAAHAHA!!!!!
