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I fell in Love with a Vietnamese h00ker

2022-07-19 · 8 min

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  1. Hello and welcome back to a new video.

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  2. So today I want to talk about my dear

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  3. friend Bilbo's recent trip to an

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  4. unspecified country in Asia that

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  5. definitely does not begin with an M. So my

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  6. best friend Bilbo told me that he had a

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  7. really great time in general in this

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  8. country. He had some great food, he saw

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  9. some really nice places, but there was

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  10. just one thing missing from the trip that

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  11. prevented it from being a perfect trip.

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  12. And one could say that this trip was

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  13. lacking in a certain luster. And actually,

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  14. Bilbo has been to this country before, a

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  15. couple years ago, back when he was happily

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  16. married, and he brought his ex-wife to

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  17. this country, and he kept comparing this

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  18. trip to the trip a couple years ago when

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  19. he was married and kept thinking to

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  20. himself how much better it was last time.

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  21. There's nothing much sadder than going on

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  22. a vacation to a wonderful-looking country

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  23. when you're single. That's probably one of

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  24. the most miserable times in your life, is

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  25. when you have to stay in a hotel room all

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  26. by yourself. One of the things I truly

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  27. believe in life is that a hotel room

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  28. should never really be slept in alone,

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  29. and if you ever do find yourself alone in

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  30. a hotel room, then you must think to

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  31. yourself, wow, my life really went wrong

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  32. somewhere, somehow. It really is just a

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  33. crying shame to have to experience such a

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  34. beautiful place, such as the country that

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  35. he went to, and have to experience it as a

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  36. single man. It's like going to a really

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  37. nice restaurant, ordering the finest steak

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  38. there, and then you don't have any ketchup

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  39. or salt to add to it. It just feels and

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  40. tastes kind of bland. So I said to my dear

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  41. friend Bilbo, if you think the steak

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  42. tastes so bland, why don't you just bring

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  43. your own ketchup or buy your own ketchup

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  44. and bring it with you and add it to

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  45. whatever you want? And he said to me that

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  46. he was tempted to many times. Every time

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  47. he walked by an ATM or a cash machine, he

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  48. kept getting the temptation to withdraw a

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  49. fat stack of benjis and buy some of his

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  50. favorite ketchup. But he said to me, the

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  51. problem with buying your own ketchup is

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  52. that the people who sell the ketchup,

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  53. they don't tell you what the ketchup

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  54. tastes like looks like, it's not until you

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  55. actually buy the ketchup can you tell if

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  56. you like it or not, and by then you've

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  57. wasted the money. So the days went by and

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  58. Bilbo's craving for some ketchup or

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  59. anything to spice up his bland steak grew

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  60. more and more intense. Everywhere around

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  61. him he could see cute, young, pretty

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  62. female women coupled with these fat ugly

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  63. monstrosities, and Bilbo was just

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  64. outraged. Bilbo kept thinking to himself

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  65. how unfair life was, why Why did he have

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  66. to sit there and suffer in solitude whilst

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  67. everyone else was having the time of their

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  68. lives? He managed to resist temptation for

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  69. the majority of the trip, but on the last

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  70. few days, it was just too much and he

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  71. caved. On the last few days of the trip,

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  72. he found himself with quite a lot of

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  73. privacy in his very own single-room

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  74. apartment, and he thought to himself this

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  75. was the perfect time and place to splurge

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  76. out and buy as much ketchup as he wanted.

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  77. So on the website, there were many choices

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  78. of different kinds of ketchup. Some was

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  79. from Thailand, some was from China, some

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  80. was from Hong Kong and Vietnam. First of

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  81. all, he thought he would have a go at the

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  82. Thai brand of ketchup since he had heard

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  83. such great things about them from other

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  84. ketchup lovers. But when the ketchup

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  85. showed up to his apartment, he was very

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  86. unhappy and unsatisfied with the way it

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  87. looked. It just didn't look like the

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  88. picture in any way at all. The packaging

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  89. was just kind of shriveled and deformed

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  90. and looked kind of Weird. He said he was

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  91. only able to enjoy the taste after he

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  92. turned the lights off and shut his eyes.

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  93. As long as he didn't look directly at it,

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  94. he thought it was okay as a ketchup

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  95. experience. So after such a long dry spell

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  96. and after having his first taste of

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  97. ketchup in a long while, he was kind of

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  98. hooked and he wanted more. Even though the

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  99. Thai ketchup wasn't really that great and

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  100. wasn't really up to his standards, he was

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  101. still up for another try. So he went back

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  102. to his ketchup dealer and asked for a

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  103. different one, and this time he was shown

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  104. some pictures of a lovely, cute, and

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  105. petite Vietnamese sachet. Now, as an

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  106. experienced ketchup connoisseur,

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  107. obviously Bilbo didn't believe that she

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  108. would look anything like the picture, but

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  109. he thought, why not give it a try? He's

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  110. never tried Vietnamese ketchup before,

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  111. maybe it would be interesting. So the

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  112. ketchup arrived and he went downstairs to

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  113. the entrance lobby to pick it up, and he

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  114. was pleasantly surprised with what he saw.

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  115. And standing in front of him was probably

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  116. one of the smallest sachets of ketchup he

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  117. had ever seen in his life. Probably around

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  118. 4 foot 11 inches tall, he could put her

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  119. right into his pocket. But because of mask

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  120. regulations in place at the time, he

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  121. couldn't see the full package completely

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  122. yet. He had to wait until he brought it up

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  123. into his bedroom before he could actually

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  124. see what his purchase consisted of. And

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  125. when the mask was finally removed, he was

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  126. pleasantly surprised with the features of

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  127. the packaging. And Bilbo said that if he

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  128. was going to compare this ketchup sachet

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  129. to a human being's face, he would describe

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  130. the face as being perfectly balanced,

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  131. nice and round, pointy chin, without

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  132. anything being weird or out of balance.

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  133. There wasn't a big nose or weirdly thin

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  134. lips or weirdly shaped eyes. Everything

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  135. was just balanced pretty well. One could

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  136. say that it's not the kind of face that

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  137. you'd have to put a bag over or turn the

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  138. lights off. Now, you could say this sachet

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  139. of ketchup was a little bit too perfect

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  140. because as soon as Bilbo got to it back

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  141. into his bedroom, he got very excited.

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  142. Excited in a way that no other sachets of

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  143. ketchup has made him in recent times. And

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  144. he also admits that he started to develop

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  145. romantic and passionate feelings towards

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  146. it. Bilbo described her to me, and I say

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  147. the word her because Bilbo likes to assign

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  148. genders to his food condiments, and I

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  149. quote, she was perfect in almost every

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  150. single way. Small and petite, I could lift

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  151. her up with ease. Nice long flowing

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  152. feminine hair that was slightly dyed

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  153. brown. She wasn't fat in any way at all

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  154. and not too skinny either. Bilbo was very

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  155. happy and very satisfied. He squeezed

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  156. every drop of ketchup out of that sachet

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  157. until there was none left to be found.

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  158. There was one major problem though. The

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  159. packaging of the ketchup was all in

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  160. Vietnamese and he couldn't understand a

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  161. word of it. Communication was extremely

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  162. difficult using Google Translate, but

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  163. somehow he managed to exchange contact

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  164. details with it. He told me he tried to

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  165. extend the time by giving her more money,

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  166. but she thought the money was a tip, so

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  167. she took it and just left anyway. Bilbo

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  168. was very confused and didn't quite

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  169. understand what just happened. It took a

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  170. while until it clicked, but he was still

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  171. determined to see her again the next day.

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  172. But this time he wanted a longer-lasting

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  173. packet. Just 1 hour was not enough, so he

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  174. told the dealer that he wanted 4 hours

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  175. this time, and he said okay. The dealer

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  176. came by the next night and dropped it off

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  177. again. Bilbo told me that the transaction

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  178. was kind of awkward this time. When he

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  179. handed over the cash, the dealer dropped

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  180. all of the cash on the floor and had to

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  181. rush around picking each note up one by

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  182. one. A couple of burly men also approached

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  183. the car, which Bilbo wasn't quite sure who

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  184. they were. But everything was fine in the

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  185. end, and he managed to get the sachet back

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  186. up to his room without too many problems.

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  187. This time, it was here for 4 hours, not

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  188. just 1. But for some reason, something was

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  189. different this time. The sachet kind of

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  190. looked a bit deflated, a bit down. Didn't

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  191. really seem as perky as it did the other

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  192. night. Nevertheless, Bilbo was still

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  193. determined to consume what he had paid for

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  194. and treated himself to 2 generous servings

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  195. of ketchup in a row. But you see, the

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  196. problem was Bilbo didn't just want

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  197. ketchup. He wanted something a bit more,

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  198. something more romantic and intimate.

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  199. Even though he knew that the other person

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  200. wasn't interested in him in the same way,

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  201. he wouldn't mind if she just faked it a

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  202. little bit so he could get a taste of what

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  203. it was like to be with a loving and loyal

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  204. devoted partner once again. Like it was

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  205. when he was married all those years ago.

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  206. But unfortunately, she wasn't interested,

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  207. and instead she just whipped out her phone

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  208. and was on her phone scrolling for the

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  209. remainder of the few hours. After a few

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  210. hours, she made some kind of hand gesture

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  211. indicating that she wanted a tip. After

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  212. Bilbo refused because he wasn't really

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  213. happy with her service, she got dressed

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  214. and left. She just walked off without even

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  215. turning back to say bye, not even a wave.

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  216. Bilbo just experienced the sweet bitter

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  217. taste, the coldness of Vietnamese ketchup.

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  218. Although sweet at first, he couldn't shake

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  219. off the bitter aftertaste. He went back to

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  220. bed, shocked and stunned, curled up into a

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  221. ball and fell asleep.

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