Edwin Blanton’s FB post (“The fact that you can’t sell your daughter for three goats and a cow means we have already redefined marriage”) reminds me of something that happened to an ex-colleague from the film company in London.
Back in the 70s, Andy and his then-girlfriend went to Turkey on holiday. A local man approached him and offered one camel for his blonde girlfriend. Andy was furious and told him, in no uncertain terms, to go away.
The next day, the man approached Andy again and upped his offer to two camels.
He’d misinterpreted Andy’s outrage as indignation at the initial offer of one camel being too low.
(Turkey, 1970s)
(Edwin Blanton used to work at the pub near the university back in the early 2000s when he was a student in London. He's now on the Board of Directors for the Society for Experiential Education.)
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