No Whammies!

Greetings, blog followers!  This time, the information that we harvested from the city wasn't quite enough to make up the body of a blog post, so today I'll skip right to the bonus.

Bonus!

If you've been reading my blog since the first documented trip- our three-stop wander through Asia in 2012- then you might remember the shoe curses that I wrote about. People can write down the name of the person that they want to curse and give it to a professional curser, who will shout and vigorously beat the paper with a shoe, effectively putting a "whammy" on someone.

When we ventured into the city, we saw that in action! A lady was carrying out the whammy instructions perfectly (and energetically) for a client under a highway overpass. And of course, because this is the wildly varying Hong Kong, there was a perfectly polished Lambrogini store 100 paces away. Remember, as Dad says, "Hong Kong is the only place in the world where you can buy 'Tiffany's' earrings and then go next door and buy a goat head."

This type of cursing is also called "villain hitting".

Marketing.

Dad Sez!

Dad's profound insights on: downtown Hong Kong!

"Rules for getting around Hong Kong quickly as a pedestrian:

Rule 1: Give up. It's hopeless.

Rule 2: Are you still here? Did you read rule 1?"

                                         -Dad (with a few grammatical edits)

Next up: Disneyland, Take 2!