Day 9 – Pelefones, Russian Women and Crazy People
Excuse me if this is not a long post but this hot computer is going to boil my foetus. So after our disastrous attempt to get a decent mobile phone deal at the aliyah fair, we try a few places. They all seem to be the same, we think there is some price-fixing going on. Buyer beware – these prices are nuts!! I actually asked the guy from Pelefone how the average Israeli affords to talk on their phone. Presumably they must be talking instead of eating??? “Yes, he nods at me, that is what’s happening.” I don’t believe that for a minute. Somebody somewhere is BSing. There is no way these Israelis spend more on their phones than their weekly shopping bill.
The country is really struggling with the sharav. Even the mall was hot. I was almost dying in a restaurant when a pregnant woman walked in and demanded they turn up the air con. God bless her. Israelis are a funny breed though, the women don’t seem to have a problem wearing Jeans and nylon in 37 degree heat, even the Russians. It’s a shame about the Russian women, lots of them are really attractive and often they wear a nice outfit – with just one thing that sends it into the realm of, well sluttiness really. Too much leopard skin here, too high heels there or a bit of unnecessary tattoo. It’s really bizarre how they always seem to manage it.
We meet a nice (older) English couple in the mall who made aliyah here 11 years ago. Lovely people but can’t speak a word of Hebrew – and it doesn’t seem to bother them! I do think it’s a shame to come to a country and not learn the language, surely it means you can never feel a part of it?
We spend some time at the estate agents office trying to beat down some guy from Bnei Brak who wants the same property as us and is behaving rather like a Rotweiler. He is clearly off his rocker so we refuse to have anything to do with the property until somebody shows us some information and an actual contract. These people are nuts, they treat buying property like an auction and make unrealistic demands. To be expected really, this is, after all, the middle east.