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Rahim ata at the bazaar
Sunday, May 21st, 2006 at 6:20 pm by BethI have a regular fruit man. His name is Rahim ata (ata = father, a polite word for older men). On Sundays after church I stop at his stall and he pretends to compete with the others by lowering his price a little and raising his voice a lot. Apricots are 6 som a kilo, apples 1.8, and he gives Lily one extra "for the road".
Today he asked where I'm from and I said Ohio. He thought for a while and said, "Ohio is a state, like Texas? Texas is good, I know cowboys." I said we have a few. He seemed satisfied.