I walked past two elderly ladies sitting in the rain with their small selection of fruits & veggies and no customers. I turned around because I just wanted to give them a little money, even if it was for just one bulb of garlic đ§or something. I knew it was going to be a hard transaction with my non-existent Russian, but I went for it, anyway. I handed the lady 2 euro and gestured to âwhatever she could give me for that amount.â I pointed to the garlic and made a kind of gesture like âHow about some of that?â And I pointed at the cucumbers & the auberginesâŠand she went straight for the plums. And never left the plums. Her cohort kept trying to tell her to give me some garlic but the woman didnât understand and even tried to hand me my money back and I laughed and said âNo, no, for you!â And back to the plums she went. Iâd never seen so many plums. I thought Iâd need a truck đ» home. She finally stopped, showed me the scale like I cared, and handed me the bag. I swear my arm dropped as I wasnât expecting it to be so heavy. I asked them if I could eat one right there and they gestured to do soâŠI wiped it off, took a bite, and was like âHot damn. Iâm a plum lover now.â Estonian plums are so freaking good! Moral of the story: You may think you want one bulb of garlic, one cucumber, one aubergine, and one plum for 2 euro, but god will give you 10 lbs. of plums instead. Thatâs the meaning of life.
Narva, Estonia đȘđȘ 12sep21
