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To: elmatador who wrote (58235)	1/4/2005 5:40:30 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Oh cool. It's worth going to Brazil just for the negotiations: <The good thing about being mugged here is that you can negotiate with the robbers. Like: Victim: "Take the money and the watch, but please, leave the necklace, it is a present from my grand ma. Has no big value only sentimental value." Robber: "Ok, keep it. Walk on and don't look back or I shot you!"> I, being a weird racist sort, prefer places like Japan where we [13 year old son and I] had to negotiate with cheerful people roaming the street in the middle of the night. They weren't attempting to rob us, but to help us, lost in a foreign city. They offered money and we had to negotiate our decline of their money. It's a much more pleasant way of life than being robbed, even if the thugs might only steal your watch and money and if you plead well, leave you with the necklace and maybe even not shoot you. Do those thugs speak English for good negotiation? The Japanese couldn't speak much English, but we had enjoyable negotiations anyway. I suspect the negotiation techniques have something to do with why Japan is about the richest country on Earth and Brazil is not. Mqurice