Tropical Tendency

By G. Albero

In the Kama Sutra, the classical Indian text on sex and sexuality, having sex with two women at the same time is said to be a favorite with sultans and maharajahs, but I felt neither like a sultan nor like a maharajah when later on, back in my room at the Atlanta Hotel, I checked my wallet and realized that I'd been robbed. Apparently, though, I had made the two young women happy, because they had been kind enough to leave me the passport and twenty dollars.

After having a look inside a jewelry shop near the Pakistan Embassy, Janina and I were about to leave when the shop owner, a prosperous looking man probably in his thirties, a little short for an Afghan, but quite sure of himself, with a conspiratorial look in his dark eyes showed me a gold ring with a precious stone as big as a walnut, and said, "This ring in exchange for the girl."
Meanwhile, Janina, not realizing what was happening, had gone out of the shop.
Keeping a straight face, I glanced disinterestedly at the ring and said that the miserable jewel would not have been enough to buy the girl. The shop owner then pulled out another ring with an even shinier stone; added it to the first one and offered me both.
"No, no," I said, keeping my head high, moving disdainfully toward the exit. "Please do not insist. I am definitely not interested."
Finally, losing his coolness the hapless Afghani said, "So tell me how much you paid for her?"
"Nothing," I said with an affable smirk on my face. "Nothing at all. I got her for free."
This was too much for the good man who became enraged. He screamed, "What do you mean free? How is it possible? Here you have to pay if you want a woman and they are expensive."
Worried that perhaps he could become physical, I went quickly out of the shop. Seeing me rushing out onto the street, Janina asked me what was happening.
"Oh, nothing," I said. "The shop owner wanted to buy you, but he did not offer enough. I said no, and that pissed him off."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1709570288
• ISBN13: 9781709570285
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 8.0"