We were watching a movie in our hotel room on a cold, rainy night in Hue when we suddenly got very hungry. So Spiros decided to go out on an emergency snack run. Within 30 seconds of leaving the hotel, a young man on a motorbike came up to him and started a conversation.
Young Businessman: “You want sexy, sexy?”
Spiros: “What?”
Young Businessman: “You know, sexy, sexy…girlie, girlie. Very cheap. $5.00”
Spiros: “Nooooo”
Young Businessman: “You want smokey, smokey? Very cheap. $5.00”
Spiros: “Nooo”
Young Businessman: “You want mushroom? I have mushroom. Very cheap. $5.00”
Spiros: “Noooo.”
Young Businessman: “Okay, Okay, you want bar dancing. I take you bar dancing.”
Spiros: “I don’t dance.”
Young Businessman, clearly now very frustrated: “Okay, okay, what you want then?”
Spiros: “Cake. I’d like some cake.”
Young Businessman, now very confused: “What you mean, cake?”
Spiros: “Cake. You know…marble cake, banana cake, chocolate.”
<long silent pause>
Young Businessman: “No smokey, smokey?”
Spiros: “No, just cake”.
Young Businessman shakes his head and drives off.
Five dollars can go a long way in Hue. Sadly, however, it can’t get you cake.
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January 8th, 2009 at 6:23 am
I am not sure why - but this is my favorite post so far.
I wonder how the conversation might have gone if Spiros had been with our old friend Ron that afternoon?
J
January 8th, 2009 at 6:51 pm
Hi James,
Yes, I think that would have made for a CLASSIC story, for sure.
January 9th, 2009 at 7:49 pm
Irish cream cheesecake prepared by your favorite baker awaits….(gelatin free of course)
January 12th, 2009 at 1:30 am
how long was Spiros gone for?
wink wink…
January 14th, 2009 at 8:00 pm