Blue Running Hat
How The World’s Worst Traveler Achieved Her Business Success
More or less on a whim, she had decided to pack her bags and take off to the first European city that she could think of. After all, it was summer and she felt the urge to get away. As it turned out, though, there was a major flaw in her plan, which happened to be the not so small matter of getting a seat on one of the flights heading to that city. Every travel agent in town told her that everything was sold out, and that she should have booked months ago.
In the end, she had been left with no choice but to change her travel plans somewhat. Instead of heading to a city of her choice, she wound up booking a flight to the only destination for which seats were available. That it happened to be the capital city of a tiny country she had never heard of before did not deter her one bit. She stuffed her suitcase full of girls shirts and shoes and other essentials, and off she went.
Put in a nutshell, that is how she wound up in the middle of a country where nobody, not one soul, could speak her language. This resulted in something of a heart-stopping moment when the customs agent examining her bags suddenly gave her the strangest of looks. He gestured towards her Swarovski earrings and began jabbering excitedly in his own language. At first she thought that she must have violated a local regulation by wearing them, but through some rudimentary sign language and crudely drawn pictures depicting stick-figures carrying guns being chased by other stick figures in police uniforms, the agent was able to communicate that he was only warning her about local thieves.
As she exited the airport, she realized that she had made a terrible mistake. The climate was not warm and cheerful at all. A blast of wind that felt like it had come directly off the polar ice cap blew up her skirts and sent them flying. Not only was the wind cold, it was rude! Firmly gathering her skirts around her, she flagged what she hoped was a taxi.
This time, luck appeared to be on her side. The driver, a portly fellow wearing a pork-pie hat, was not able to understand her language in the spoken form, but he was able to recognize the name of her hotel when she pulled out her travel reservation and showed it to him. After heart-stopping twenty minute ride on highways peopled with drivers who all seemed to be racing-car drivers in training, she finally arrived safe and sound, at her hotel.
Bright and early the next morning, she arose and set straight out for the city’s center, despite her experiences of the previous day. It turned out to be one of those life-changing decisions that happen so very rarely. For, wherever she turned, she was shop windows filled with row upon row of exquisitely and ornately designed men wedding bands. In a flash, she had her calculator out and, after doing all the math, concluded that she could easily make more than five hundred percent profit if she resold them back home.
A new business was born that day, on that street in the middle of nowhere. The local population still does not speak any language other than their own. But, that is not a problem for our heroine, who keeps the source of her supply a closely guarded secret. She has learned theirs.
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