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cheating people
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Back to Zoba Immigration at 8 am, where we learn that not only are they still closed but it's the wrong office, go to Zoba Administration. Luckily everything is close together here, though it must be 40 degrees at 9 am. At Zoba Administration, same story: (a) they are closed; (b) go back to Immigration. We'll figure it out tomorrow. Maybe throw a party and invite all of them.
Dani and Asilka will go to the beach while I write, but first we both decide to move to the Assab Pension, though for different reasons. I because it's cheaper at $3 and just about as good, though without air con; and Dani because the people at his hotel are bad people.
- Really? The woman seemed quite friendly. She whipped us up a nice dish of goat, not expensive, asked us to sit with her, smiles a lot.
- No good. Today they say they have no meat. They have meat.
- Maybe they needed it for later. Also you just opened the freezer and looked inside. Sometimes take their word, don't check everything.
- Bad people. They try to cheat.
- Really? But the woman lent you 100 nakfa [not just credit, he actually borrowed cash to spend elsewhere until he could exchange]. That's unusual, for a hotel-keeper to lend money to a guest.
- Cheating people. I have a gold ring I buy in Oman for $40. They want to buy for $10.
- Maybe they didn't want it or didn't have more money. I might not give you anything for it, but I don't consider that a stain on my character.
- Bad people!
Where I stayed:
Assab Pension
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