Talking Turkey
My plan for KTK was to present a few photos of our trip to Turkey with a bit of commentary on a scam which occurred while we were there. The photos had been on a computer which is long gone so I decided it was about time to load them on my MacBook. I plugged the old camera into the computer to load them to iPhoto and it did not go smoothly. I spent the next four hours trying every possible combination of camera settings and software settings and curse words. Time was getting short but I was stubborn; I finally gave up and called Apple. Finally all 720 photos are here on this computer and gives me hope to use them in one or more future diaries….but not today.
I have mentioned this before, but the first scam took place in The Taksim square, the place where the Turkey demonstrations began. A shoeshine guy dropped his brush and I picked it up. He offered a free shine in gratitude but then demanded a huge sum of money. I walked away with him following me, threatening.
The second one happened to a woman in our group. These men offered a drink of tea out of the picturesque pouring apparatus. If one accepted, they poured the tea and demanded an outrageous payment.
Have any of you been affected by or witnessed a scam such as these? Of course I'm talking about street scams on a personal level. Wall Street has more scams than Carter has little liver pills.
Now the trip itself was wonderful and spectacular and I will detail those aspects in the future. In keeping with the kitchen table aspect of things let me show you a pastry I saw in a shop window.This thing was nearly three feet tall.
This plus a cup of coffee in the morning would surely get you going.
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