I did not have a brolly with me when that happened recently, and I found myself to be searching for one frantically just as I was about to make an exit out of the building. It was such a hassle to retrace my steps back to the office to ask my colleagues for one, so I ended up scouring the shops at the basement in search for one.
Fortunately for me, I found the one and only umbrella there was in a small shop - all for 200 freaking baht! When I was about to pay for it, she smiled her megawatt smile with a parting shot of, “This (umbrella) is really good. It’s colourful and has got UV Protection.”
Faking a smile from ear to ear, I said thank you, but erm…no. I think I need it more for the pissing rain as oppose to needing UV protection in this weather...?
I wondered if she realized what the weather outside had been like. In fact, I am not sure if she realised that the reason for me buying a brolly was not because of some silly UVs protection while it was pouring. I walked away, rolling eyeballs to the back of my head. I wanted to poke her eyes with the pointy thing at the end of the brolly for selling me a very over-priced umbrella.
So here’s my 200 Baht colourful brolly with UV protection:
Not the prettiest brolly I have ever invested in a jiffy,
and by the looks of it, I figured the shop keeper probably got the brolly as a premium
for one of the products she was selling. Perhaps being the ever opportunist, I was not
surprised that she’d rather be selling it to an idiot like me who desperately
was needing a brolly at that time.
It must be her easiest sales pitch ever. Whatever it was, I
am sure she had the last laugh with my 200 Baht.
Only in Thailand.
Only in Thailand.
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