Excuse me?

One day, as my sister and I strode like any other day down the mall halls, just swishing through shops and past people, with some interesting things, and some you don’t even want to talk about. Finally as it was soon time to catch the bus to the other mall, something catches my eye. I stood staring, as my sister followed my glaze to a little booth, and in the little booth stood a man, who sold games. As I circled the booth, searching for a section with Xbox games, until I found my section. Looking clueless at the games, trying to find something interesting, until I found what I wanted. As I recall it was called “The “something” in sim city” and I love the Sims. As my sister looks at me, then at the game, and she bursts out, “You have everything the Sims, what’s wrong with you, like you even have the Sims, country bumpkin!” as she addresses the Sims game on my game boy. Then as I look at her, with no interest in what she’s saying, she asks me, “ How much is it?” I smile then ask the man in the little booth, how much is this? He looks at me, then at where I’m pointing, and squirts out a little, uninterested, 20. Where I come from the form of currency is called Ryhals… I don’t know how you spell it, so that is the incorrect spelling. As my sister and I look up at the man in shock, from his strange “20”, I don’t know what my sister was thinking, but I was saying in my mind 220, 2200, what? When finally, I blurt out a disgusted, strange, question full, “Excuse me?” then my sister blinked and thought “Yah she’s write and is he talking a different currency?” and asks, “Ryhals?” as the man looks at us as if we were two ordinary people with mental problems, not able to understand that the game cost 20 Ryhals. When out of nowhere he jumps from his side of the booth to where we were standing and points to the game and says, “Unoriginal,” my sister and I exhaled and smiled, said thank you to the man and walked away. I asked my sister, why don’t we buy it?  She replied, “Because our system doesn’t play, unoriginal games,” and I nod to her statement, she looks down at me and mocks my “Excuse me?” and then that became our big laugh of that day, as we still make fun of it now.1

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