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Come Easter and hundreds of enterprising businessmen start making loads of unholy cash from scamming their fellow Bulgarians.
This is one of the few holidays that the whole nation follows fervently and when Easter approaches, so does the time of rotten lamb, carefully disguised cracks in the eggs and falsely miraculous paint. One of the main topics around the holidays in all news casts is just how much lamb has gone up in a week and how many merchants are not storing it properly, selling goat instead of lamb and slacking on the necessary health control. On Thursday, one of the two days when Bulgarians traditionally paint eggs, there's bound to be at least one story of paint scams. And in case the usual media fail to provide it, here's my personal contribution.
Just like many Bulgarians I got eggs in the last moment (and have yet to see how many of them have cracked in the store), and in a moment of weakness, I also got a kit of what is called "Traditional Wax Techniques for Decorating Easter Eggs." The kit was supposed to contain a stick with a hole and a tiny metal funnel in it, a wax plate and a leaflet with instructions. I opened it at home and what do I see, it turns out that someone has forgotten to put the wax in. So I basically ended up paying for a useless stick with a hole in it and a colourful leaflet showing me what I can't do with the Easter eggs. Calling the company that produced the magical kit, under the roaring laughs of my relatives, I got the answer "well, we are usually very, careful, we don't know how this happened, and there is nothing we can do before Easter comes." True.
What could the small stupid plate of wax have cost them that they decided to scam on it is beyond me. But it represents one very Bulgarian way of thinking - let's sell as many kits as we can for as much a profit as we can gather up this Easter and by the next one, we'd either change the company's name or repackage it. The fact that such a holiday is no time to pull cheap tricks on others, somehow manages to escape their heads. Me? I am just lucky I was impatient enough to open it at home, because it was supposed to be a present for grandma... Now that would have been embarrassing.
This is one of the few holidays that the whole nation follows fervently and when Easter approaches, so does the time of rotten lamb, carefully disguised cracks in the eggs and falsely miraculous paint. One of the main topics around the holidays in all news casts is just how much lamb has gone up in a week and how many merchants are not storing it properly, selling goat instead of lamb and slacking on the necessary health control. On Thursday, one of the two days when Bulgarians traditionally paint eggs, there's bound to be at least one story of paint scams. And in case the usual media fail to provide it, here's my personal contribution.
Just like many Bulgarians I got eggs in the last moment (and have yet to see how many of them have cracked in the store), and in a moment of weakness, I also got a kit of what is called "Traditional Wax Techniques for Decorating Easter Eggs." The kit was supposed to contain a stick with a hole and a tiny metal funnel in it, a wax plate and a leaflet with instructions. I opened it at home and what do I see, it turns out that someone has forgotten to put the wax in. So I basically ended up paying for a useless stick with a hole in it and a colourful leaflet showing me what I can't do with the Easter eggs. Calling the company that produced the magical kit, under the roaring laughs of my relatives, I got the answer "well, we are usually very, careful, we don't know how this happened, and there is nothing we can do before Easter comes." True.
What could the small stupid plate of wax have cost them that they decided to scam on it is beyond me. But it represents one very Bulgarian way of thinking - let's sell as many kits as we can for as much a profit as we can gather up this Easter and by the next one, we'd either change the company's name or repackage it. The fact that such a holiday is no time to pull cheap tricks on others, somehow manages to escape their heads. Me? I am just lucky I was impatient enough to open it at home, because it was supposed to be a present for grandma... Now that would have been embarrassing.
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