For mothers day I did not get a camping light or a camping cooker (like expected an wished for) but a Nespresso machine! Great too!!! Welcome me in the club of people saying, "My coffee costs DH 5.57 a cup!"
With the machine came a voucher for DH 500 to chash at the Nespresso Shop at Massira el Khadra. There, I went one morning, my only chore in the city (and I hate going into the city). I found a parking space in the non parking aeria.
God bless the yellow number plates!!
The shop is very posh. I felt underdressed immediately, not wearing a dinner dress. Business men came in for a free coffee, predenting, they are tasting it for a future purchase... I tasted a green capsule, the latest spring/summer fashion. I did not like it.
I told the landy, that I have a voucher here and would love to have a variety of the nicest colored capsule she has. She took the voucher alright and asked me for the invoice as well as the article number...
Well: who is running around with invoices and article numbers of presents one got???????
I told her, not to be so peculiar and just (for f... sake) to give me these overpriced coffee samples in aluminium containers. She would not. I threatened her to call her boss (whom I don't know). Nothing helped. Underdressed and undercoffeed I had to drive all the way home.
Mission not accomplished.
I had a little time left and wanted to find a shop called Balsatex. A shop, which sells beautiful towels. People did not know the street, but still sent me in all the directions of the world. I gave up and went into a bathing costume shop. I hate, when sales women immediately jump on me, as soon as I am in the shop. But again, it happened. She showed me a model with cussions inside, bigger than the ones I use on my sofa. In case, they are possitiv boyant, you just float on the pool without moving a limp!!!! Just for the fun of it, I checked the price - DH 2400!! Upps. How do I get myself out of that shop!! I told her, I did not like a pillow case in my bikini top and looked at a simpler one, without any filling materials. She gave me a queer look and said, "This model is for women with bigger boobs!"
Now, it was easy to leave the place.
Also, you pay more for a bikini without pillows inside as for one with.
Days later, I went back to the Nespresso shop (I just had to...) accompanied by the invoice, article number, birth certificate and - just in case - my blood group card!!!
