One always encounters peculiar sights when travelling, but few stranger than the following, which I observed while cycling through the Cambodian countryside.
1. A 6 year-old girl on the side of the road, having a smoke, looking just as cool as could be. She had one hand on her hip, and was puffing on the cigarette like a movie star.
2. Riding on the back of a motorbike, an apparently sick woman carried her own IV, suspended from a metal rod just like in a hospital room.
3. This billboard 
Yep, those scarf and sweater clad kids are blasting off on condom rockets into the cosmos of love (or perhaps, the cosmos of unwanted pregnancy prevention).
Thursday, October 18
Oddities
3 comments:
Hi, "Elwood!" Had dinner with your parents tonight in Spruce Pine. Am married to a doc here. Harry Ervine. I'd like to link your blog to mine. Yours is fascinating!
Best regards,
Marty
i remember all the little kids trying to sell me postcards at angkor wat and i'd always say, "nothing! i want nothing!" then i'd light up a smoke and they'd pout and put their hands out. as soon as i gave them a cigarette they'd start doing the french inhale and were all smiles, "where you frrrom?"
Uhm, Porter, did you just write you were handing out smokes to the Angkor kids? Really, you couldn't just buy the 6 cent postcard?
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