If you see something....
Things that make you go hmmm....
On the way to work this morning I stopped off at the bodega to grab some bottled water.
I just use the word for any small shop, it's not like they've got Tito Puente music playing in it or anything. Outside the bodega was a truck....on the front it said
"Explosive Van".
Then on the side it said "Defense department" and under that "ordinance".
The fruit-wallah was talking to the guys in the back of the truck. Hopefully the guys in the truck just wanted some bananas or coconuts, otherwise the fruit wallah is gearing up for somehting big.
On Negotiating
When the ricksahw guys shake their head and go 'nahi', you have to start throwing numbers at them. Recently my haggling has been going poorly because pach-ees is 25 and pach-ahs is 50. This is a linguistic odditidy because the other multiples of 10 all end in -ees.
On the way to work this morning I stopped off at the bodega to grab some bottled water.
I just use the word for any small shop, it's not like they've got Tito Puente music playing in it or anything. Outside the bodega was a truck....on the front it said
"Explosive Van".
Then on the side it said "Defense department" and under that "ordinance".
The fruit-wallah was talking to the guys in the back of the truck. Hopefully the guys in the truck just wanted some bananas or coconuts, otherwise the fruit wallah is gearing up for somehting big.
On Negotiating
When the ricksahw guys shake their head and go 'nahi', you have to start throwing numbers at them. Recently my haggling has been going poorly because pach-ees is 25 and pach-ahs is 50. This is a linguistic odditidy because the other multiples of 10 all end in -ees.
- 20, bis
- 30, tee-ees
- 40, char-ees
- and then 50....pach-ahs
Then again try explaining why it's 'twelve' and not 'two-teen'.
