A warm afternoon sitting and drinking coffee at a cafeteria in Greece with friends. Three nuns approached different people along the main street. They were selling wooden bracelets with icons of saints on. When one of these nuns came to us she said:
- Would you like to buy a bracelet to sponsor the restoration of monastery we come from at Chios (Chios being very far away from where we were in Greece).
I do not remember the name of the monastery but she showed as a picture. You can give a sum whatever you feel is appropriate she said. We gave her some Euros and then she left saying thank you. Later that evening a friend of us said:
- Did you see those three gypsies dressed up like nuns?
It turns out that these ladies have found out a smart trick to fool people.
I must give them a hand for being so resourceful. They must come up with a story which no one will find odd, find appropriate clothes (sewing? steal?) and play the characters and in the end have something believable to sell. I can pay for that charade without hesitating.
Anyway we were fooled.....
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