I like this pic – for soppy reasons. These kids were trying to persuade me to buy their wares for “one dollar”, and the little girl on the left demonstrated much entrepreneurial potential when she changed her tune from “three for one dollar” to “four from one dollar” after about three minutes of trailing me.
The boy in the baseball cap gave up pretty quick, but the other boy with the recorder and the girl stuck on for ages! The boy was pretty cute too, he played the recorder to show me how it worked, and I was this close to reaching for my purse to give these kids a dollar each – just for being so cute and for trying so hard.
Then I remembered, Y had all the small notes.
These were the only two kids I seriously considered buying stuff from, firstly because they’d followed me so far off their beat there were no other kids around so no one would be disappointed, secondly because they were really persistent and cute, thirdly because I could always have given away the stuff I bought as souvenirs. Too bad Y had the foresight to only give me big notes. If there’s one regret I have from Cambodia, it’d be not buying from these two (not the boy in the baseball cap, the other two).
