Stamps
Trip Start
Jan 10, 2007
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10
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Trip End
Jul 03, 2007
Dubai,
United Arab Emirates
Friday, January 26, 2007
First I went to the Registrar and asked where I could buy stamps. The woman at the desk for some reason just couldn't fathom what I meant by "stamps" and kept trying to give me the University's offical stamp. Maybe I should have said postage? Instead, I ran upstairs to ask Liz, our director of library services and information guide.
She told me to go across the street into the mini-mart. I stood in line at the mini-mart, but when I got to the register, I discovered I didn't have enough money left to pay for eleven stamps!
To get some money, I went back to get another hundred dollars exchanged on campus. The exchanger looked at my green, old-style $50 bill, and said, "We don't accept bills from earlier than 2000".
I went back up to Liz's office. I said, Where can I get my money exchanged? She didn't know! She had to call the person in the next office, who also didn't know. Finally, they found someone who knew, and it turns out the bank was right next door to the shop where I first tried to buy my stamps!
The bank gave me a good rate, but when I went back to the mini-mart to buy the stamps I'd reserved, the girl behind the counter said, We don't sell stamps. I said, Huh. That's funny. I was just in here a half-hour earlier, and you had a whole lot of them!
So she sold me the stamps--and never gave them to me. She didn't give my post cards back either. She said that she'd take care of it, but not trusting the situation, I demanded she give them all to me, and I just put the stamps on myself.
And that is how I got eleven stamps, and sent postcards to you people!
