The Tip & The Kidnapping

8:15pm the transfer guy picked us up from Sude Konak even though we were staying at Romance hotel. He dumped us outside the restaurant and told us that he would pick us up after the show. The Turkish night began with many belly dancers, folk dancers and of course a Greek Knife dance. Audience participation was required so some old dude got on stage. They made him lie on the ground. They threw a wood board on his stomach and then started dancing around him with knifes. They randomly threw knifes onto the wood board on his stomach. We all stood there watching to see if they would actually successfully knife him. I had my camera on for the entire show thinking this would be a great opportunity to send something into Rove’s what the ?

The old guys wife practically had a heart attack thinking that her husband was about to get knifed live on stage. Luckily the old guy made it out of there safe and sound.

The last act came on stage. It was some old guy singing in various nationalities. He managed to drag on and on. In the end I wished someone knifed him so we could end the show.

The night came to an end when the waiter came over and asked us for a tip. Even though the night was prepaid apparently tips weren’t included. The waiter asked us to leave a tip on the table. We were disgusted with the whole idea. I think it really annoyed me that they asked for a tip. So we went searching for coins and managed to put together $4 on the table as the waiter was waiting near us. The minute the waiter turned around we grabbed our tip and ran for it like lunatics. We jumped into the transfer van. This was the worst part of the escape. We were stuck in a non moving van. It wasn’t like we could have made a quick getaway.

While waiting in the transfer van another transfer guy asked me where we were going. When I told him, he told me to get out of that van and get into his van, as that was the correct van. So we jumped off the van and headed to the other van. When our transfer guy came yelling his head off. I can’t even remember what the argument was about now but our transfer guy insisted and dragged us back into his van. Another transfer guy almost kidnapped us. Luckily our transfer guy managed to see the kidnapping process and we didn’t end up in the wrong hands. The two guys managed to argue this out. Finally our transfer guy jumped in his van and slammed on the gas. We managed to escape being kidnapped.