Find and Fix Errors

If anyone ever offers to give you a used laptop or a refurbished laptop on the street for free, don’t take it! It could be potentially dangerous! The things that you can run into in a big city are innumerable and if you can help it, should be avoided at all cost. There are all kinds of people who are wanting and willing to take advantage of any number of people in a city. If someone were ever to come up to you on the street offering you a laptop for free, it could either mean that it might be stolen, or has viruses on it, or is a bomb of some sort. Those sorts of things happen all the time on subways and stuff where they keep an extra eye out for suspicious activities.

Now, street vendors are a completely different deal. They are generally not out to wreak havoc unto the populace, but are merely on the street trying to make a living. Despite their seemingly good intentions, you still will want to make sure that the thing or things that they are selling to you is absolutely worth the price that they are asking. You do not want to fall victim to one of their scams, nor do you want to be duped by the vendor. Instead of standing by thewayside and letting them take advantage of you, you need to be able to barter and to attempt to lower the price.

While I was in New York City on a band trip this past spring, we were able to go into China Town so we could experience the shopping atmosphere.

I remember walking into so many shops that had all of the faux Coach purses displayed proudly on the surrounding walls and the small Chinese woman standing in the center of the mess of “designer” bags calling out each bag’s price to us, the customers. We were crammed into that little shop like sardines in a tin ten times too small for us and were intimidated by the expense of these so obviously inexpensive bags. So finally, someone in the sardine crowd haggled her way into getting the bag she wanted for almost I learned. I went next door to the ring stand, which was really the one I was excited about, and got the ring that I wanted for seven dollars less than what she was selling it for. That was not the only lesson I learned in New York City, but it certainly was one of them.

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