She said she wanted a cigarette
A Roma woman stopped me on the street yesterday and asked if she could bum a cigarette. I said, 'Sure,' because if you know me you know very well that nothing gives me more pleasures than supporting other people's bad habits.
Any regular Sofia dweller is already clicking their tongue knowingly. I should not have stopped. She didn't really want a cigarette, you see. She wanted to read my palm or whatever, tell me about my love life and stuff. By the time I had taken my lighter out of my bag, she had already managed to tell me that I will be traveling abroad a lot, that I have recently cried for a man, and that I should try to keep some of my secrets to myself. I'm thinking, 'Keep secrets to myself?! Woman! I blogged my way out of heartache!!!!!'
As she was finishing her little speech, a sane-looking young guy approached and told me that if I needed peace, I should be in church right now. He also said that I was being sinful for listening to her.
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Dude! The woman said she needed a cigarette!!!
Any regular Sofia dweller is already clicking their tongue knowingly. I should not have stopped. She didn't really want a cigarette, you see. She wanted to read my palm or whatever, tell me about my love life and stuff. By the time I had taken my lighter out of my bag, she had already managed to tell me that I will be traveling abroad a lot, that I have recently cried for a man, and that I should try to keep some of my secrets to myself. I'm thinking, 'Keep secrets to myself?! Woman! I blogged my way out of heartache!!!!!'
As she was finishing her little speech, a sane-looking young guy approached and told me that if I needed peace, I should be in church right now. He also said that I was being sinful for listening to her.
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Dude! The woman said she needed a cigarette!!!
posted by petya at 6/22/2006 01:12:00 PM
9 Comments:
it's good to be home, ain't it :)
yeah...i think this will be a recurring theme in this blog at least for a little while ;)
if they try to read your palms, you need to stop them and offer to read their fortune...say something like "i see you in the same position 5 years from now...trying to take advantage of honest hard-working people...wait there is something else..you have two more kids." it makes them kind of angry but it seemed to work for me and i (barely) speak some kind of broken village Shopi Bulgarian..just a thought..and out of curiosity are you having any problems with your return after being gone so long, i.e negotiating culture..just wondering
heheh, i will definitely try that. it'd be fun to watch their reaction.
no reverse culture-shock. i've been coming back at least once a year since i left...so it's been a relatively smooth transition so far. it will get a bit more interesting once i start work (some time next week). kevin, we should get together for coffee or something. i'd love to hear more about what you're doing and how you like bulgaria. all i know is from your blog. ;)
hey i thought you quit smoking
Nope. I did not. In fact, I failed miserably. But I know I am capable of doing it. Just not now. ;)
Elements of your funny encounter somehow reminded me of a classic spaghetti western movie scene. I believe it has a bounty hunter offering a smoke to an outlaw gunslinger hunchback, and the latter fellow, ready to pull his gun, says "In 10 minutes you'll be smoking in hell." Not entirely the same thing as your experience, but nonetheless my warped sense of humor made a connection. Glad to hear you're enjoying being home again.
Having now looked up that scene, I'd better correct myself before the movie buffs get up in arms. The hunchback is actually the one who is telling the bounty hunter to have a smoke. So that's less tie-in to the palm-reader tale, but still enough similarities (smoking, predictions, eternity, a shady character) for that one line to click in my brain. IMDB.com had the scene on their site as follows:
Memorable Quotes from
Per qualche dollaro in più (1965)
Wild, The Hunchback: Well well, if it isn't the smoker. Well... Remember me, amigo?
Col. Douglas Mortimer: M-Mm.
Wild, The Hunchback: 'Course you do. El Paso.
Col. Douglas Mortimer: It's a small world.
Wild, The Hunchback: Yes, and very, very bad. Now come on, you light another match.
Col. Douglas Mortimer: I generally smoke just after I eat. Why don't you come back in about ten minutes?
Wild, The Hunchback: Ten minutes you'll be smoking in hell. *Get up!*
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