A post with a moral

The other day I was driving on the highway towards Jounieh, and there was quite a bit of traffic. Consequently, there was a fair number of hawkers selling bug zappers, straw hats, cologne, etc. on the side of the road. Just past the tunnel, I saw this guy:

Selling sponges that clean
and shine your dashboard

Well, some guy in a shiny new CLK a few cars ahead of mine decided he wanted one of those sponges and started haggling with the hawker. Traffic was stop-and-go, so the peddler had to jog every few seconds to keep up with the CLK. A few times, traffic was more go than stop, and he had to jog a hundred meters or so to continue negotiating the deal. This went on for some time, and after about one kilometer, the CLK dude decided the sponge was beyond his price range, indicated by the peddler dropping his pursuit of the car.

Now, considering that the price of one of those sponges couldn't have been more than LL 5,000 ($3.33), and the poor peddler had just jogged over a kilometer in the blazing sun trying to make the sale, the guy in the car should have felt bad after the first hundred meters or so and just bought the damn sponge. Instead, he kept the negotiation going and turned the guy down flat.

Moral: Lebanese who drive expensive cars are pricks.