Sarah's smelly purse adventure...

(I do advise that no purses were injured in the course of this adventure)

My friend Sarah, well, she loves her purses. It a simple and true fact. So on her first day in China she spotted a Louis Vitton that she fell in love with. Now if you don't know what a Louis Vitton purse is, first of all you're me about a year ago, and second it really doesn't matter save the fact that it's an expensive brand of purse. OK, she saw this purse and I could see in her eyes that it would eventually be hers. And she did go back and buy it.

Sarah was very proud of her purchase and came back to the hotel to show it off. Justin and I were looking at it and one of us made the comment that it smelled like a musty basement. This didn't go over very well, and I could see that Sarah was a bit disappointed. She had bought it at Milan Station which is a glorified second hand store for very name brand merch. The Louis was not much talked about until my last night in HK. We happened to run across another Milan Station in a different area of town. We walked in and started talking about purses with one of the sales clearks and Sarah related her story with one of them. Trying to bridge the language barrier, we started to describe the smell and eventually told him it smelled like fungus. He immediatley offered to help. Sarah near sprinted back to the metro to return to our hotel and get the smelly Louis.

She not only found a better purse than the one she had, but also got an amazing deal on a leather Louis cover for her cheque book. The clerk, Keith, was very helpful when he really didn't have to be. I was impressed by his willingness and even offer to do what he could. We don't know what will become of the smelly Louis, but we do hope that it finds a good home.

And how often do you have two salespeople in a store taking turns sniffing a purse?