Couple of days ago we went for an overnighter to Patnam beach. It’s not a very populated beach, being that it’s right at the end of Goa. Anyway, we had ten litres of urrack in the boot, and a few bucks in hand to have a merry night. But I won’t bore you with ‘how much fun we had’ and stuff like that. Here, is a curious case of strange economics, that I’m having a little trouble understanding.
At the beach are these cottages, built out of wood and bamboo. They’re usually quite cheap (yet awesome) so we found one a little off the sand. It was 1000 for the big room, and 800 for the smaller room. At the end of the bargaining session, we got the smaller room down to 600. Then followed a long conversation, which has been highly shortened for your reading pleasure. Note that I’m not really part of ‘we’.
We: There’s 8 of us.
The idiot: Hmm. You will have to take two rooms then.
We: Okay, how about we pay you 800, and all of us stay in one room (add some extra mattresses).
Idiot: Not possible. Boss will fire me. How about this. I’ll give you two small rooms, for 1000.
We: Not possible. How about this. You give us two small rooms, for 800.
Idiot: Okay.
Idiot ends up giving us two of the big rooms, for 800.
It is at this point of time that I respectfully asked myself, what the fuck is going on here! If I were ‘we’, we would definitely have paid something to the tune of 2000, and thought that we got an excellent deal out of it. I’ve got to commend my friends. They are the cheapest bastards I’ve ever known, and I’m proud of them!
*It was an awesome trip, one that we didn’t want to spoil by snapping pictures.
ROFL! I guess his boss must have fired him anyway.
At first I didnt get it. Then I ROFLd!