Why Buy Such A Stupid Thing?

I went to another store in Korea and was looking at a dirty wallet. The owner asked me, "Are you Japanese?"

I said, "No, I am Indian."

He said the wallet cost 10,000, but after I took one step out of the store he said, "Since you are an Indian, I will give it to you for 3,000."

I went back into the store, but when I was about to buy the wallet, he said, "No, the price is 5,000."

So I didn't buy it. I said to myself, "For 5,000, why should I buy such a stupid thing?"

-26 September 1988