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I haggled for some flowers

Submitted by Guest on February 16, 2008 - 17:57.

I haggled for some flowers without knowing it. The conversation was in chinese (which I don't speak). When I heard the price (25 dollars) for one flower - I repeated what I thought I heard (which was 20 dollars) and somehow managed to get a deal of 2 flowers for 40 dollars, not 50.

Okay, so the money is not big, but that seems a big discount to me 1/5th.

But everyone was happy. Except me because it meant I misunderstood the original number in chinese - and I thought I could hear the numbers.

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