Beli Bantal Gratis "SARUNG BANTAL"

After changing the money, felt so rich. Hand started to itch. On the way back to apartment, we passed by a counter selling pillow.”Beli satu Bantal Gratis Sarung Bantal”. I wanted to buy a pillow for sometime becoz the one that I’m having just cant make me sleep well. I actually thought of buying from Malaysia and brought over becoz the price of the pillow over here was quite expensive. Average bout Rp 100,000 per piece. My mom stopped me..”Sigh! RM 40 is worth enuff for you to sleep comfortably for a year my dear…”Tat was what she said.

Without thinking any further, Jun Yau and I walked in to the counter, The salesgirl served me and said “ Bu, belilah..bantal ini (bigger in size) hanya 87(means Rp 87,000)…dan yang itu 32 (showing us the smaller size pillow)” I’m being so blur and slow in converting Rp to RM asked the salesgirl again on the price. “It’s so cheap …only RM 13 for the small pillow..worth it la….”,said Jun Yau.

“Ok, I’ll take the small one”, I said. The salesgirl wrote the invoice for me. Then, the salesgirl showed me few selection of the pillow case. But I don’t really like the design. After few minutes of choosing the pillow case that I like, the salesgirl told me that I’ve chosen cost about Rp 186, 000. And after discount is Rp 126,000. We were shocked! |The pillow case is much much much MORE expensive then the pillow that I bought. Then I thought maybe the free pillow case don’t have much choice. “Mana satu yang gratis”, I asked. The salesgirl then replied and said,” Yang gratis bukan untuk bantal yang bu belikan. Ok, fine. Maybe the pillow that I bought was too cheap for a free pillow case. I decided only to buy the pillow and not the pillow case thinking that I’ve an extra Spiderman pillow case.

When I’m about to pay for the pillow, I saw the invoice stating Rp 132,000. I showed it to Jun Yau and said, “Isn’t it only Rp 32,000? Did we hear it wrongly and the salesgirl wrote it wrongly? We asked the salesgirl again and she said,” It’s Rp 132,000”. “Not Rp 32,000?”, I asked. “ Unggak(means tidak/no), bu.Yang bu pilih Rp 132,000. Harga sebelum discount Rp 264,000.Ini brand Wellen.” My next question was “How bout the big one? Rp 187,000??” The salesgirl said,” Yang itu Rp 87, 000, bu”. Jun Yau and I started to laugh. We wonder why first of all the pillow case was more expensive than the pillow,secondly the misunderstanding of the free pillow case and thirdly the miscommunication that we’ve made.

After making the payment, Jun Yau sarcastically said, “Maybe the so called “Gratis sarung bantal” was the plastic bag..or else you’ve to walk back without it.” Lolz…..

At the end, I just bought the BIGGER pillow with a CHEAPER price WITHOUT the EXPENSIVE pillow case….