Wanchai can be weird and wonderful sometimes….
A drama in three parts seen on Saturday evening at the HSBC on the corner of Hennessay and Luard.
A negotiation is taking place, the actors are a young pretty Filipina and an old geezer, beer belly, double chins and a drinkers nose.
The geezer sounds like an London Boy and is being a bit agressive: ”Listen love, I run a company and when I bid for business, I need to negotiate and drop my price.” She says: “It’s only HK1000, this is not too much for you but a lot to me, why do you have to treat me badly.”
At this point another actor enters the frame, asking the girl if she’s OK, at which point our geezer says: “What’s your problem mate?”
Our new arrival turns abruptly, there’s one quick jab and our geezer sinks to his knees wondering what hit him. Sir Galahad asks the girl how much ‘geezer’ was bartering for, hears her reply, holds out his hand to her and hails a cab.
Not quite riding off into the sunset and living happily ever after, but one obnoxious old peasant might think twice before further exploiting an already over exploited group.
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Bit of an extreme way to get a discount don’t you think?
But seriously, yes, it is quite outrageous how guys who’ve already drunk their way through several hundred dollars that evening will haggle with a girl over the price of one or two more beers when that will feed her family in the Philippines for a week.
My impression was that the ‘knight’ was willing to pay what the other guy had agreed just to save her from having to put up with his crap.