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And My Pockets Are Lighter
I paid for the photos today at the LJA. Eight euros later I have a copy of a letter to LJ about the cimbalom, a copy of LJ's application to the Czech Academy of the Emperor, and other cool stuff. They told me it was one Euro per photo. I took nine, and here is what happened when I left:
Docent: Excuse me, but we're closing in five minutes and if you can pay now I will write out a receipt for you.
Me: OK.
D: Now, how many photos was that?
Me: [After looking through my notebook and counting nine photographs.] Um, nine.
D: Will you pay in Crowns or Euros?
Me: Euros.
She left the room to write the receipt. Who knows why I decided to pay in Euros, I guess I figured that I might as well use up the coins I had laying around. It turns out that there were actually only eight Euros in my pocket. Uh oh! The Docent returned. "Sorry," I said, "but there is a bit of a problem: I only have eight Euros with me."
D: No problem! I'll just re-write the receipt for eight.
Me: ???
It was that easy. And someone else's pockets are heavier.
Previously: To Continue, Please Insert One Euro
Tags: Brno, research
Docent: Excuse me, but we're closing in five minutes and if you can pay now I will write out a receipt for you.
Me: OK.
D: Now, how many photos was that?
Me: [After looking through my notebook and counting nine photographs.] Um, nine.
D: Will you pay in Crowns or Euros?
Me: Euros.
She left the room to write the receipt. Who knows why I decided to pay in Euros, I guess I figured that I might as well use up the coins I had laying around. It turns out that there were actually only eight Euros in my pocket. Uh oh! The Docent returned. "Sorry," I said, "but there is a bit of a problem: I only have eight Euros with me."
D: No problem! I'll just re-write the receipt for eight.
Me: ???
It was that easy. And someone else's pockets are heavier.
Previously: To Continue, Please Insert One Euro
Tags: Brno, research
Posted 20 June 2006 at 14:14.
A graduate student in music and anthropology writing a dissertation about music in Moravia, the eastern third of the Czech Republic. At some point, the Czech Republic's "second city" (that would be Brno) captured my attention, and I've since been blogging about events, arts, music, and other stuff—basically whatever interests me in and around the cityscape. I'm not living in Brno now, but I keep up with the cultural pulse from afar as best I can.
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