not 20 meters away from the setting of the following story: : 無料・フリー素材/写真
not 20 meters away from the setting of the following story: / permanently scatterbrained
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示 2.1 |
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| 説明 | [excerpted from ericmolina.blogspot.com]I was looking at these little wooden sculptures when this guy comes up to me and says "Ice Cream? Ice Cream? Coconut, very good. Cold." I didn't really want an ice cream at the moment, so I shrugged him no and kept looking. Instead of leaving me alone, he decided to help out the local vendors. He asked if I wanted jewelry. I didn't, but I was looking, actually, to find something for my mom. He held up tihs hideous, hideous silver ring with a garish pink gem on it. The gem was the size of my freaking eyeball, and, well, pink. It was nasty. Nonetheless, he tells me to give him my hand. I do, just for shits and giggles, and with a moderate struggle, he got it on my finger. "It doesn't fit.""You buy?""My finger is turning pink.""You buy?""No."after which a three to five minute ordeal of taking the ring off my finger ensued. i appreciate the hustle, man, but what the hell am I going to do with a ring like that. do i look like fucking Liberace to you?anyway, I bought a few things and headed back towards him. again, "Ice Cream?" at this point, i figure what the hell. this guy is a pain in the ass, but he's grown on me. so i give him the 5000 kip (exchange rate in Laos: 10,600 Lao kip per One USD) and proceed to eat the block of coconut ice cream on a stick. Because he's grown on me, I'm okay with conversation."You want Beer Lao?""No.""You want Coke?""No.""You want Tuk-Tuk?""No.""You want lady Lao?""What?" oops."Lady Lao. Very nice. Bam Bam. Lady Lao.""Wow.""Lady Lao. Very nice.""I'll bet.""You want?" Keep in mind, according to a posting outside the US Embassy (pictured below), it is illegal for a foreigner to have sex with a Lao National if the two are not married. "You want?""No, I gotta go."at which point he flagged down a tuk-tuk for me and I took off. such is life in Laos, or any country afflicted with abject poverty. even the ice cream man is a pimp. |
| 撮影日 | 2006-06-04 11:16:20 |
| 撮影者 | permanently scatterbrained , New York City, United States |
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| 撮影地 | Vientiane, Viangchan, Laos 地図 |
| カメラ | EX-Z750 , CASIO COMPUTER CO.,LTD |
| 露出 | 0.003 sec (1/400) |
| 開放F値 | f/8.0 |