Wednesday, October 06, 2004

Day 2 - The Grand Bazaar Part 2

Yes! The Grand Bazaar again. I thought it was time i started buying belly dancing belts. But before we could handle such a hectic shopping session, we stopped by the cafe for a cup of turkish coffee where moishii wanted to have my cup read. He asked the shop keeper if anyone knows how to read a cup. He said to moishii "Well why don't you just make something up to entertain your japanese friend?"

LIKE FFS!
1. I'm not japanese
2. HOW THE HELL FAKES A READING?!

We headed towards the grand bazaar after where we walked into this store where it was covered with belts and I started going crazy pulling belts off the shelf and trying them on. The guy thought he scored a big customer and went and bought me an apple tea (YUM!!!) whilst I continued to pull things off the shelf and out of bags. I chose quite a few scarfs I wanted and started to bargain with the guy. He said he was giving me a special deal of $75million for all 3 things I wanted. This is the conversation that happened:

Him: 75million for you
me: 50 million
Him: No No! 75 million
me: 50 million
Him: Ok Ok 65million
Me: 55 Million
Him to moishii: Oh My god she's dangerous.

I got them for 55 Million dollars! :D Of course.....things never go so smoothly for me. As we walked away with my big bag of belts, this guy went running through the crowd and elbowed me in the back of my head! LIKE FFS! CANT I EVEN GO SHOPPING WITHOUT GETTING FARKING ELBOWED IN THE HEAD! ITS NOT LIKE I HAVE MUCH BRAINCELLS LEFT! I SHOULD'VE CHASED THE GUY AND ELBOWED HIM BACK! I WOULD HAVE IF I DIDNT HAVE CONCUSSION! FFS!

As we were leaving the Grand Bazaar with a bruise on my head, we noticed this guy(?) standing outside a shop. His whole posture said woman but everything else said penis. I guess you had to be there to appreciate the freaks we see...

We went to Ortakoy for dinner which is by the sea. We ordered my current favourite, Kofte. Which is turkish grilled meatballs of some sort. We got sausages without the skin and wedges. FFS! Even I know how to make better kofte then that. The only consolation was that the restaurant was right by the water there they give you blankets to wrap yourself in whilst having dinner. We were going to take a blanket home with us but I think we would've been arrested before we even made it out of the restaurant.

There were quite a few markets around Ortakoy including this store that sold scarfs. They drap the scarfs on a table and by making sure they don't fly away, they scrunch one end up and shove it amongst the other stuff. I picked up afew scarfs to look at and then placed it back in the same manner (After deciding not to buy it when my bargaining didn't go well) and the guy complained that i was creasing the scarfs! WTF? HOW THE HELL DO YOU CREASE SOMETHING THAT IS ALREADY CREASED! WTF IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE?! UGH


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