it’s like “un poco”
Okay, this is from Agra, but I got behind. Basically, though most of Agra was overwhelming and we couldnt even leave the hotel without the someone saying “where are you going?” and then trying to convince us that we should use their restaurant, driver, etc instead, we did find a rather chil rikshaw driver. He took us to the “baby taj” and then around and after our fill of gazing on the Masouleum and hanging out with the camel kid, we headed off to dinner. Since we liked the driver, and Craig knew how the businesses work there, we offered to do a little “shopping” for which the driver would get commission just for bringing us into a shop. I liked being on “the inside”and felt much comfortable with the driver explaining the situation rather than just being pushy and trying to convince us that we did truly want to go look at sandalwood carvings or overpriced jewelery. So anyway, the four of us land in this sort of handicrafts emporium, nice stuff, very pricey — jewelery, carvings, saris etc. We did our best to look curious, Craig almost bought a t-shirt, the cheapest thing there. There was about 1 salesman for each of us so the trick of looking interested without really engaging was tricky. So, to sort of ease the tension we were chatting in Spanish, I dont remember exactly what about, but probably about the prices, or something we didn’t really want them to understand. So at one point “my” salesman was trying to convince me I needed a sari (and of course asking about my marital status) when i was trying to deflect his questions by making comments in hindi so we could use baby talk, which never gets very involved and is pretty much like me saying “it expensive is, me USA from am” etc. So Vasi’s “salesman” overheard this conversation and asked her if she spoke hindi and she said “a little” and he said, in hindi, the word for a little, instructing her,
“Toda, Toda, it means ‘a little’ like “un poco”
we all froze trying to remember if we’d said anything to give away our “alliance” with the driver, assuming he actually knew more spanish than “un poco.”
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