The tourists apparently started haggling after being charged 1.50 dollars for a cup of tea :michael-laugh:
(NSFW in case some folks find mild violence upsetting)
Imagine traveling from your imperialist safe haven and trying to bargain some local down from a dollar and fifty cents after they put your ugly ass up in their home.
my favorite thing is that Canadian guy who went to an ayahuasca retreat and killed the elder who ran the ceremony (an 89 year old woman, lol) and then his family/govt got mad when the locals rightfully lynched and killed him in retaliation
Anglos legit think they’re gods
It fucking floors me every time I read stuff on travel that’s usually written by westerners (not necessarily anglos, though I am unfortunately one) on some poorer places, and people write about how to avoid scams and avoid overpaying, but then you run the conversion to the local currency and it’s like a fucking dollar at the most. Absolutely no skin off the traveler’s back, but can mean a good day’s wages for whoever’s involved. Fucking wild.
Even for condescending tourists they’re fucked up. Like, my dad once wrote a travel guide for Jamaica; he pretty consistently states that you should heavily tip all the people serving you, in US dollars if you can, because they’ll remember you for it. Condescending, sure, but pragmatic.
This a particular, awful kind of penny pinching posh person as well. No one would bat an eye at paying less than a quid for a cup of tea in Britain where no one has had to lug it up a mountain or give you free accommodation with it.
I guarantee this women regularly pays four or five times that for a weak teabag and a slice of lemon at home and probably double that again for a coffee made with laboratory equipment.
