Sunday, May 30, 2010

I've never seen

a man using a pillowcase to carry a tv before. I was traveling through the south, sitting on the bus, one of the few committed soles determined to take the bus the entire 4 hours drive despite its wretchedly slow pace and habit of stopping randomly on the side of the road per drivers discretion. The alternative, of course, being a direct minivan which at an additional cost of 300 Leke (appox $3.00) didn't seem worth the hour and half shorter journey. (Hindsight is 20/20 isn't it?). As we pulled out at a roundabout, I assumed someone was getting off until low and behold a man carrying fabric stretched around a box got on. He proceeded to carefully walk down the slowly moving bus. When he passed me, I scrutinize the fabric and saw that it was not a cardboard box but television. Hence, today, I saw a man carrying a television in a pillowcase on the bus.