This blog contains travel tales and sundry stories of 100 words or less.
TIGER MAN
Wednesday, September 9, 2009Seoul, Korea
At a subway station an elderly man was selling hand painted tigers, which cost thirty dollars apiece. I quizzically waved my Ten U.S. Dollars as he painfully explained the Korean Won equivalent. This went on for a while and I pretended to be more confused. In exasperation, he took my money, rolled the tiger print and handed it over to me. I smiled broadly saying kamsahamnida (Korean Thank You). He mumbled something in Korean, but I guess I know what he meant: “Forget the thank you wise guy. You can have the tiger at a bargain price.”
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