Many years ago before the Olympics were to be held in China. I thought I would be best to visit the Land of the rising Sun before it, really open up to the world, So off I went. For the sake of keeping things interesting, I will cut out the boring parts.
Before I embark on a trip aboard I do a lot of research in to local culture and local scams. Because I would never want to offed anyone and i most certainly don’t want to get taken. Boy oh boy would I be in for a big surprise, but in the in the end I would have the last laugh.
It all started when we were walking around Tienanmen Square and these two collage age kids came up to us a boy and a girl. and began to talk to us. i had read that some of the younger Chinese do this to practices their English. after talking to them for awhile, I ask them if they knew where any of the Olympic shop where because I wanted to get some souvenirs to take back home. it took a bit but soon we found one and I wiped out my credit cards and parched my items. at that moment they ask if we wanted to get some tea to warm up so we said yes that would be nice and they knew just the place.
We walked though back alleys and stores in and out of restaurants the up a set of starts to this room in the back of a long hall way. The people inside were very nice as we sat down and the tea ceremony started. The young lady doing the ceremony was very knowable as she move on from one tea to the next explaining how it would taste in our mouths. About the fourth tea something did not feel right to me, and I saw eight more tea box off to the side still to come, when I just wanted one cup. At the end of the ceremony of 12 teas we are given a bill equal to almost three hundred america dollars.
To which I say bullshit what kind of scam is this. The two Chinese kids say the menu is on the wall when u walk in. Which it is, written so big that it just look like the ugliest wall paper you ever seen. That prompt me to say you to are in on the whole thing. Well I hope you have money to pay for this because we don’t have any. The girl say back to me, we don’t have any money but they take credit cards. I then say I don”t have any Credit Cards. knowing full well they knew I just used them in the Olympic store. so we sat their just looking at each other for a bit. I said call the cops we are not paying but I did feel bad for the young lady that spent over a hour now explaining the different teas. So I took out a fist full of money and found what was the equivalent to ten american dollars and gave it to her. even though she was in on it she was good and spent the time to in lighted me about the different teas. i picked up our stuff and walked out and told the kids to bill me.
