I Megaphone

Most tourist cities like Rome are infested with street merchants. Each trying to sell you "designer clothes" at discount prices or sunglasses that light up in blue neon for no reason. I was talking about these merchants with one of my classmates, BradyBunch, when he told me about his interactions with a street merchant the previous night. Apparently the street merchant had tried to sell him a knock off watch but BradyBunch proved to worldly a traveler and too frugal a business man for him. 

BradyBunch: "What? You want 5 Euro for this? They sell this for 1 Euro in China... I'll give you 1 Euro for it.

Confused Merchant: "Screw you! I paid 2.50 Euro for this?"

BradyBunch: "What? This took maybe 60 eurocents to produce... maybe. If you really paid that you should start getting a better deal for yourself, you are getting screwed"

Confused Merchant: "Fuck you."

BradyBunch told me that in general, you shouldn't buy anything from these street merchants, however there is one very important exception. "Not all of them have it, but if you find a merchant with a megaphone you have to buy it." I asked him what I would need to do with a megaphone. "Oh man, everything in life can be better with a megaphone." I took his word as gospel and when I was out later that night I found a street merchant with a megaphone. I haggled him down from 20 euro to only 7. Yes, I am now the proud owner of a megaphone. Get ready for everything I say to be louder.