The conversation usually goes as follows:
¿Quieres un caramelo?,They say (do you want a piece of candy?)
Sure! Thanks!you reply enthusiastically, thinking that you will receive a delicious sucker or maybe a jolly rancher or something...
And then they reach into their pocket and pull out a thing of Halls cough drops. They hand you a sticky menthol lozenge, and you take it begrudgingly, and have to eat it to not appear ungrateful...
Everyone eats cough drops like candy. They may eat and entire package of cherry cough drops within an hour just because they like them. Once again, the strange things that happen here in Venezuela.
at least it keeps the coughing down!
ReplyDeleteDo people regularly take candy from strangers?? Also--have you ever told anyone that you don't like halls...or would they just not understand that that's possible...
ReplyDeleteHence the old Venezuelan saying: "It's as easy as taking cough drops from a baby."
ReplyDeleteyou should start giving out jolly ranchers and see how people react. "no burning sensation? what kind of candy is this!?"
ReplyDelete