Was eating at one of my favorite places to eat the other day
for lunch and saw a traveler that looked to understand English looking at the
menu that the restaurant places outside the on the so called curb. This
gentleman was very nice and I invited him to sit with me at my table to talk to
him over lunch.
He had a story that I need to tell the people just as a preventive
story so that what happened to him does not happen to other nice people. This
gentleman just flew in that morning from another place which will be unknown in
the story but that is not important. What is important is that when he got to
Vietnam he had a bad day but a great outlook on life.
Not knowing the language and the customs once in a while in
traveling we meet a bad apple in the bunch. The gentleman had gotten a cab ride
from the airport to near the hotel where he was staying at which is a sister
hotel where I like to eat. During this cab ride the gentleman was taken
advantage of and even though he was taken for about 200 USD. He still had a
good outlook on the situation.
What had happen was
that he had a rather large bill more than the cab ride. He needed change and
the cab driver did not have the correct change so the cab driver asked for
another bill and the gentleman traded out the bills for what he thought was supposed
to be the correct change that he had thought. In reality the money that was
given by the cab driver was actually fake look alike bills that were just color
photocopies of real bills.
Not knowing what the currency looks like I can see this
happening to any new person that visits a new country whether it is Vietnam or
China, or even Brazil.
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