Yesterday, well-dressed, confident me go on shopping.
I see many selling watermelons by the road. I asked a yong woman seller for price, she says “$3.5/500g”.
Then I turned to the old grandma by her side. She says “$10 for 1500g”.
“Well, that is cheaper”. I think. So I picked a melon and asked her to weight it.
She is watching TickTok; then she get up and weight the melon for me. The ticktok app on her phone is still playing.
After weighting, a weird thing happened: she say the melon is not “ripe”. Then she patted many melons, which is a mysterious technique. I’m impressed, and accept what she picks. Although it’s more expensive.
A night passed. I now want to eat it; however, on open the melon, I discovered that it has a huge scar on the side, which cause it to rot.
I picked the other side, but it’s still not ediable. Then I get up and buy a melon in a nearby market. The melon was good.
After eating, I begin to think. Why the melon I go further, and check the price, but it’s bad?
It might be that the older people is becoming evil. But I can’t say it for sure; she maybe just mad a mistake. But I still feels being cheated.
I want to go to argue with her, but it’s far and today she might not be there.
Well, for fair and convenience, I should always go to fruit store to buy things.