Josh and Yona's Blog of Many Things

Josh started this blog when he was doing disaster recovery work after Hurricane Katrina. Now it is mostly our travel blog.

Friday, July 23, 2010

shopping


Shopping is different here. It goes like this, you kind of want to go shopping so you wander in the direction of the market (souq) and someone says do you want to see a factory, and you say no, and he says, why no, and you say, because no, and then you are following him because it is only 2 minutes away, and 10 minutes later you are following him down a series of small and smaller alleyways and soon they are kind of even underground and left and right and right and blind corner, and right and left and kind of left before a quick right and now curving and dont hit your head, and then there are less and less tourists and 10 is not 2, and now the guide seems to be gone and now you are going to die, oh well, and this is what you get for not listening to Yonas father and getting a registered guide instead listening to someone with a rumpled shirt and bad hair, and whats worse you cant even remember what he looks like aside from he looks moroccan with bad hair and rumpled shirt, and here comes the loud motor bike too quickly down the alley that is too narrow for three to walk across, and you decide you will just give the motorbike robberman your money in your pocket and if you are lucky he will not know about the money belt, and then motor cycle man passes and the guide reappears and opens a random door and, deep breathe, you find yourself in an amazing house that is now a shop but it could be a museum because it there are so many amazing antiques, and the rumpled man vanishes and a well manicured shopkeeper appears, and the only dying will be the beautifully dyed leather, but forget the antiques maybe you should buy the whole house because of the tile work and the bath that is so big that it would make a perfect jacuzzi, but you cant ship a house back to america and for that matter you probably cant even ship the massive metal table either, so you compliment and try to leave, but the shop keeper knows another place and you are off...

PS - If you are Yona's father reading this, please disregard the part about going to die because we would never do anything like that and would only use a licensed guide and we take our emergency C, echinacha and cold snap three times a day the second we sense anything wrong, so there is nothing to worry about.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

HAHAHA- i love this post. i was laughing through it. this sounds like fes...are you there now? xoxokate

10:10 AM  

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