Watches, bags, shopping...

Pictures will come in 5 days.

On some streets, while walking, people will approach with a pamphlet or advertisement of some sort, and say these words..."Watches, handbags, shopping?" with the intent that if you do want to purchase items such as these, you will follow them and they'll lead you to none but watches, bags, and shopping.
Other people will approach and try to start conversations with these questions, "Where you from?" "How long you been in Shanghai?" and way to often, everytime in fact, it's very annoying. T.P. (his new nickname) and I have come up with various ways to evade these bothersome buddies by putting headphones in our ears and pretending we can't hear them, ignoring them completely, telling them we're from China to see their reactions, and our latest, speaking Spanish to them. So the other night T.P. was approached and he tried his hand at this tactic using his entire vocabulary of Spanish all in one conversation, "Yo hablo espanol. Yo quiero tacos, burritos, y carne asada." and the best of it all, "Te amo" which I thought was pretty funny, all said in his gringo accent. They responded with, "Oh, you from France?" To which he replied, "Espana!"

The other day while walking through a knockoff market with friends, a shop owner approaches and shows us a watch and as we're looking he says, "These are fine watches all smuggled from Sweden.
Hee hee...
...smuggled from Sweden.