Yesterday, maybe the day before yesterday, I had an interesting experience trying to pay our bill at the coffee shop just around the corner from our hostel. We had been at the cafe about 1 1/2 hours (this might seem like a long time but when you don't know what day it is ... it just isn't, hard to explain).
Our server, who appears to work day and night, was at the counter. I had just finished using the internet and we were all done so I was nominated to pay the bill. We didn't really know how much the bill would be but we figured 2000 forint would do the trick. 8 coffees (Matt and Jen are nuts about coffee, I'm trying to take it easy as the shakes aren't really my thing anymore) and internet = 3150 forint. whoop, I had no more cash so I went to the kids to get more money, I walk back with an extra 1050, put it down, smile, she looks at me like I'm a crook and then says enough english to make me realize i'm still short. I would have assumed that 2 coffees would be enough to wake my mind up, this does not appear to be the case on vacation. A trip to the kids and back produces enough money to cover the bill and some change. At this point I'll mention that it's about noon, maybe 1230 and there is an older (large) gentlemen at the bar having a beer. I give her the money and get the change, as I do the older (large) man grabs my hand, says something to me in Hungarian (which I don't think it's actually called) and then turns my hand over and makes me put the change on the bar as a tip. I smile, say in English that I was going to leave a tip at the table as the amount that was on the bar was not enough -- about a 4% tip or something -- he smiles at me, says something back and I interpret it as "leave", so I did, no extra tip, sorry lady, you need to get ride of the big bar guy before I leave more tip.
That doesn't sound quite as funny as it may have been as Matt and Jen thought that would make a good story for the blog. Sorry for wasting you're time.
I keep making older european gentleman mad at me for some reason. I think they might be jealous of my hair. First thing I do when I get home is going to be shave my head. Done and done.
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although not as interesting as the previous post, i appreciate that you're getting your fellow travelers to brainstorm ideas. no need to apologize, i think it's just erin and i that read these (or at least that comment).
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