It appears the bug which was cut short last week has caught up with me. I woke up this morning feeling really horrible, and could not get back to sleep. All day has been rough, and I had to cancel on dinner plans because I felt so bad. After I went to my internship for a couple hours, I thought I'd stop at the Jordanian version of Walmart, which I think is called Carrfor.
Their "Super Walmart" is located in the mall. I think it's a great marketing idea. You have to get food anyway, and this way you end up feeling it's easy to go spend money at some of the other stores.
This is just not my day. While there, I explained to the sales guy what I needed, but he thought he'd take advantage of the ignorant foreigner and steer me to the most expensive option in the store. I really only need the little box that plugs in to the wall, but he only handed me the whole wire plug in and everything. He wouldn't show me anything else. Sigh.
So I found another guy, and he got me the right thing. This is such a frequently bought item that they have a giant bin a little ways off in the store. It's behind a bunch of sets of shelving, so I didn't see it. I bought comfort food, and then went to go home and get to bed really early.
Of course this wasn't easy either.
It is really busy outside, and there's people getting into cabs. It's rush hour, and the first guy who was getting me a cab told me it would be a little more than twice the normal price. I told him no thanks. Then I got into a different cab, and told him to start the meter. He told me it would be twice the price this time. So I got out again.
I was feeling pretty put out and was almost willing to pay the rip off price, but I decided to walk far away from the mall, and maybe find a busy street with cabs.
I waited for a very long time. One guy got dropped off by one cab, and when I finally flagged my cab down...and he got into my cab and they left. Uhhhh!
I did make it home, finally, and about to get to bed really early. Been a very rough week with lots of tests and stress.
Their "Super Walmart" is located in the mall. I think it's a great marketing idea. You have to get food anyway, and this way you end up feeling it's easy to go spend money at some of the other stores.
This is just not my day. While there, I explained to the sales guy what I needed, but he thought he'd take advantage of the ignorant foreigner and steer me to the most expensive option in the store. I really only need the little box that plugs in to the wall, but he only handed me the whole wire plug in and everything. He wouldn't show me anything else. Sigh.
So I found another guy, and he got me the right thing. This is such a frequently bought item that they have a giant bin a little ways off in the store. It's behind a bunch of sets of shelving, so I didn't see it. I bought comfort food, and then went to go home and get to bed really early.
Of course this wasn't easy either.
It is really busy outside, and there's people getting into cabs. It's rush hour, and the first guy who was getting me a cab told me it would be a little more than twice the normal price. I told him no thanks. Then I got into a different cab, and told him to start the meter. He told me it would be twice the price this time. So I got out again.
I was feeling pretty put out and was almost willing to pay the rip off price, but I decided to walk far away from the mall, and maybe find a busy street with cabs.
I waited for a very long time. One guy got dropped off by one cab, and when I finally flagged my cab down...and he got into my cab and they left. Uhhhh!
I did make it home, finally, and about to get to bed really early. Been a very rough week with lots of tests and stress.
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