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royal-viridian · 5 years

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✨ - a blog rate

my blog is 12/10 B)

…wait this isn’t about me? smh

your blog is Top Quality! love the rad skater frog & bouncy gengar, really goes with your edgy aesthetic :^)

💕 - tumblr friends

uhhhh i’m kinda embarrassed to admit that i don’t have many pals on this Hellsite lol, just a bunch of mutuals

i talk to you and one other (who i won’t tag bc she lives a very busy lifestyle) sometimes, but other than that i don’t really interact with people here

although i am trying to be more outgoing & talkative on this site! i’m having varying degrees of success on following through

unless people message me first with something more than a simple hi or hello to go off, i don’t talk to people bc i get easily spooked

tho if you do message me with something cool or an easy conversation starter that skips awkward small talk i’d defo be willing to talk :)

(someone did message me and tell me i’m a blessing which i will remember forever, tysm)

📖 - tell a story

did you ever hear the tragedy of my loss of 5 euros? i thought not. it’s not a-

yeah enough of that

buckle up nerds, i’m gonna tell you the story of how i got conned out of a fiver in paris (i couldn’t think of anything else)

think back to a long, long time ago… it was february 2016, i was but a Wee Lad, hopeful and optimistic for the world

it was my first time out of the UK! i wasn’t a gullible kid, & i knew about all these snipes who target tourists so i thought i’d be fine :)

oh boy i was wrong

we’re walking towards the Montmartre when i kinda fall behind the group with a few friends. they’d spotted something interesting, so we’d all stopped to admire it, pretty basic tourist stuff yknow?

cept i had missed the part where one of our teachers had explicitly said not to stop in this area. my friends hadn’t.

they hurried on forward up the steps, getting closer and closer to the Sacre-Coeur, the main attraction! i didn’t want to be left behind, so i sped up towards them.

then it happened.

one of these tourist-targeting conmen approached me offering me a “friendship bracelet”, which was really just a couple bits of string tied together. by the time i’d realised what was happening and wanted to say no, he’d already grabbed my wrist and was tightly tying it around.

naturally, i tried turning around to see if any of my group were seeing this shit. this was ridiculous, right? he couldn’t seriously be doing this, right?? someone would save me, right???

wrong.

three people, who i assumed to be his pals in the same business, were hovering around me, holding various other tourist bait. he finished tying the Oh So Stylish string then asked for a “contribution” (payment) for his great talent

not wanting to be rude or cause a scene, i lifted out my wallet and went to give him 5 euro.

he did not want the five, even though he’d asked for a contribution and not a specific payment. he noticed the ten, and wanted the ten.

i said i’d pay 5 euro, take it or leave it, and by this point some of the group had turned & noticed this event. did they help? oh no, it was hilarious!! couldn’t possibly want to miss this golden opportunity for a pisstake :^)

(in fairness i’d likely do the same lol)

he finally settled on the five & let me go, knowing i wouldn’t fall for anything else. with our fateful encounter coming to a close, his parting words were to wear the bracelet in front of the church and pray. it would bring me luck and good friendships!

paranoia had kicked in full blast. i’d thought it was a mark to show that i was a gullible tourist. literally as soon as i’d put foot on the first step up the hill i ripped the bracelet off. i wasn’t gonna get scammed out of more money! certainly not for cheap as shit string bracelets at least lmao

i did however buy a bunch of golden coins, which i might post a pic of if anyone wants to see them

overall paris was a fucking great trip, and i’m hoping prague will be as good, but that one bad experience stuck me with a modified version of a previous nickname:

scammyb125 !

in case you’ve ever wondered where that name came from :^)

cheers fr asking nerd :)

#holy shit this is a long post #the story turned out to be a whole lot longer than i'd expected #the wording is fucked but that's bc 1. it's an ask? i guess? and 2. i haven't written out stories in anything other than messages for #literally years #i need to get back into writing #tags

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