I am pissed off and I'll tell you why. I'm sitting here in an internet shop in Siem Reap, Cambodia. I like this town a lot. Anyway, so I'm checking email and whatnot when this monk comes up behind me and taps me on the shoulder. As soon as I turn he thrusts this shiny cardboard amulet in my face and says "peace". So I take it and he starts rambling on, don't know what he's saying. Then he takes out a little pad for me to write my name, nationality, etc. Then I see a column that says donation, and everybody above me has given 20 dollars. Well fuck, I could live on that for a few days if I had to. I had to give something because he also gave me a bracelet. All I had was a 10 and 20 dollar bill so he got the 10.
I'm not happy about it. It's not that I don't like being charitible. Quite the contrary. It's just that while I'm in Cambodia I would like to help Cambodians. Well I look at my amulet and its got chinese script all over it. Theres a buddha on one side and on the other side...
There's a fuckin ferrari! What in the hell does that have to do with buddhist peace. I gave 10 dollars to this tosser. What a day.
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