In Reply to: is this legit posted by sueand kids on Thursday, 8. December 2005 at 16:39 Bali Time:
last few trips we have stayed down more so the Legian end & the game down there seems to be young guys driving around on motor bikes ,pulling over next to you while you are walking & asking if you can speak English.We saw many other people trying to escape - once they said Yes they did.
I had my husband & son in fits of laughter & the motor bike rider with a blank look on his face - when I would reply in Bahasa that "No, I don't speak English" We would just continue walking before the young man had realised he had been beaten at his own game <LOL> Some of the times when I did this the person would laugh & tell me - very good joke,you are funny Mamma.
Sometime to keep my husband or son guessing I would reply in French , it became a bit of a game with us - for my husband & son to guess what I would come out with next time a time share person on a motor bike tried to hit on us - whether it would be Bahasa,French or a few words in my very limited Italian or German.
I do know they are only trying to earn a living but I dislike the dishonest style in how they do it.Once I struck up a conversation with a couple of young locals out the front of a Circle K while waiting for my husband & son.After a few minutes one of them told me his job was in time share,he was enjoying telling me about his village & family.I told him I was very pleased that he didn't try & push time share onto us & said if he had I would have walked away.When I told him what I had been doing when people tried to stop us when on Motor bikes he thought it was very funny & said it was better than when people were rude to them !