In Reply to: A gentle rip off posted by Bruce NZ on Tuesday, 1. June 2021 at 08:40 Bali Time:
Too many years ago I negotiated a price for a small carved sailing boat with a boy of about 6 years old on the beach. Hard backward and forwarding for 15 minutes we settled a price. he scurried off and a couple of minutes later returned with it wrapped in newspaper. I paid and off we went.
Half way to Lovina my mate said giz a look at that boat. When he unwrapped it he just said did you know it was cracked? No wonder the little bugga had such a huge grin when he handed it to me and took off into the little maze of huts.
The boat sailed its last journey out the window and I reached for the chilly bin to wrangle a cold one, plotting my revenge on the little fella, but thats another story and to be fair probably one I won't repeat just in case interpol scour the BTF to help solve old baffling crimes.
Ianz