Haggling is one of the great joys of this life. It bring entertainment and creativity to an ordinary transaction. Its a battle of wits and woe be unto the inarticulate haggler! I can spot and start another true haggler boiling with merely 2 or three well chosen words.
Haggling is roughly the same as swearing. Any fool can swear, and in fact, many of them do, Or try to.
But its the fine and creative combinations of actual and created on the spot, just for the occasion words that really bring up the flavor and make it entertaining.
I was introduced to haggling in Juarez Mexico when I was just a child. I loved it. Exuberant and fierce and at the same time the most fun you can legally have on a street corner under the noonday sun over a cheap item neither the buyer nor the seller really has too much invested in.
You walk away, you walk back. He walks away, he walks back. Arms are flying, insults wickedly hurled.
Each pulling the fire from the depths of creation and dressing it up in a most elaborate way.
In the end you probably arrive back at the same price you were going to do the deal at anyway.
But you just got to enjoy and participate in, spontaneous street drama of the first degree.
Sometimes the drama being more memorable than the item ever was.
yours Scott
