A Total Rip Off
Mine wasn’t too bad. When I was younger, probably 14 or so, my mother and I took a Caribbean cruise. At one of the ports of call, they had buses that would take people out to the main shopping district. After we got off the bus, we were trying to figure out where to go first, and the driver offered to take us to his friend’s shop.
I was 14 and stupid, and my mom is really really nice and hadn’t traveled outside the US before. So he ended up driving us to his friend’s shop. I really liked this one ring, and we were talking to the shopkeeper about it. My mom was kind of hesitant, and then the shopkeeper dropped the price by half. I apparently had really convincing puppy dog eyes, so my mom bought it.
She knew we’d been ripped off. I wouldn’t admit it, but I think I knew we’d been ripped off too. But I really liked the ring.
The ring got lost before we made it back to the States.
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