Haggling on Brick Lane

I eat way, way too much. I got out of my adventure stories class (some girls stopped me and were asking where in America was from, and said that my saying "Maine, the top-rightest one" was much more helpful than people using their hand as a map and pointing out their states), went to the gym, came home, and ate a huge serving of mashed potatoes and some fishsticks. I sustained another burn on my hand while flipping said fishsticks. (I also have one on a knuckle from flipping cheese puffs that Shidvash and I made the other day, and another one from oil spitting at me while Vanessa and I were making quesidillas Monday night. It's the week of the burns for me...). I then ate ice cream until it was time for class again. After my last class, I made a pizza and Vanessa came over so we could figure out what we wanted to do that evening, and when I was halfway through my pizza I heard her saying on the phone, "Oh, I don't know if we can go out to eat, my friend is having dinner right now."

Of course I said I still wanted to.

Luckily we decided to get a late dinner, and a few of us and Haider (Vanessa's friend) met up and hung out at Haider's flat for a bit, and talked with him, a flatmate and her boyfriend. James, the boyfriend, actually worked at a summer camp in Massachusetts over the summer, so he really enjoyed talking about Boston, and Rii kept trying to get us to talk about stereotypes of British people, which I couldn't really come up with since I was pressed. After hanging out a bit longer we caught a bus and went to Brick Lane.

Brick Lane is FANTASTIC. It's a bunch of curry places, which all have exactly the same menus, and workers have to stand in the doorway and make you deals to come inside, and what you're supposed to do is ask them for their absolute best offer, and say that so-and-so down the road was offering more percent off and free drinks, etc etc. It was so much fun! Haider was trying to get us to haggle in a British accent, but I opted out of that... I still got us a deal for ten pounds a head- two free rounds of drink, a starter, a main course, and then rice or nan- but we decided to go to the place that had won an award for best curry the last three years (recommended and haggled for by a Perfect Fried Chicken worker on that road, actually- so I guess I indirectly got us that deal as well, since I made us stop so I could go to the bathroom). We only had one free round of drinks at Papadoms, but that was plenty, and I left and was finally legitimately full! It was delicious. I'm totally just going to go haggling on Brick Lane when I get bored.