Of potatoes, potatoes and potatoes..

Scene:

Carmen sees a girl eating a potato-chips-lookalike-thingy from a stick in Jusco.
Carmen feels like eating those.
So Carmen asks for money from her mummy to buy it.
First stall she sets eyes upon:
BAKED SWEET POTATOES
She figures that those were the stuff she saw the girl eating.
And so, she goes to the stall and orders..

Carmen: Er..Itu (points at the picture of the baked sweet potatoes)
Potato seller guy (PSG) : Ha?
Carmen: Itu (points again)
PSG: Ohh..berapa?
Carmen: Er..er..100 gram la (the picture shows RM1.60 for 100g)
PSG: Ini bolehkah? (points at a rather long sweet potato)

Carmen looks down at this point and stares at the sweet potatoes. She wonders why she has to choose her sweet potatoes. Isn't the guy supposed to just do whatsoever he has to do with the potatoes on whichever potato he wants so that it can be on the stick for her to eat?

Carmen: Er. Itulah. (points at the shortest potato)
PSG: Ini? Ambil inilah. (picks up another potato and weighs it) 260g.
Carmen: Tak mau, tak mau..Itu (points again at the shortest potato. cheapest ma..)
PSG: (weighs the potato Carmen asks for) RM1.60..ok?

Carmen nods. PSG writes the order on a paper and hands it to her. Carmen walks over to the cashier to pay for it. Then, she walks back to the stall and hands over the receipt. PSG hands her the bag. She opens the bag. Lo and behold, she finds a pathetic looking sweet potato in it.

Carmen: WHAT THE FREAKING HECK?? (still staring at it, willing it to turn into the thing she saw the girl eating just now)

Then, her sister comes and looks into the bag.

Sister: Ok..what's that?
Carmen: Er..potato? (at this point, feeling very stupid and cheated)
Sister: Buy potato for what?
Carmen: I wanted the thing on the stick la. You got see anot? So many people eat.
Sister: You mean that one? (points at the banner behind Carmen)
Carmen: (turns around and sees the banner..right beside the sweet potato stall) YES! That one..(looks inside of bag again) Shit ler..

Carmen looks at the miserable looking potato and then at the banner and back at the potato again. She wonders what she's going to do with the potato and how on earth she's going to eat it.
It was still covered in skin, by the way.

Carmen: Mummy's going to kill me..
Sister: Haha.

Her mother comes at this moment and looks at the potato.

Carmen: Er. How to eat this?
Mummy: Peel the skin la. You buy this for what?
Carmen: Heheh..I wanted to eat that.. (points at the banner)
Mummy: Haiyo. Buy also buy wrong thing. Nah, go buy la (gives money)
Carmen: Then, this one le? (looks at the potato)
Mummy: I eat la, I eat la..

Carmen goes to the stall (the right one this time). She looks at all the flavours (black pepper, seaweed etc..) and settles on mix.

Carmen: Mix one.
Correct potato seller guy (CPSG) : Mix?
Carmen: Yea.

CPSG writes the order on the paper. Carmen goes and pay again. She goes back and collect her potato thingy. Carmen is happy as she finally gets her potato-on-a-stick. As she takes a bite out of it, her daddy, mummy and sister are laughing.

Carmen: Why?
Sister: Daddy bought another potato.
Carmen: For what??
Daddy: Eat la. I want ma.
Carmen: I bought one already ma.
Daddy: How I know ar? What's that? (points at my stick of potato)
Carmen: Potato..
Daddy: How much?
Carmen: Er.. 3.50..
Daddy: 3.50 for ONE potato??

The potato-on-a-stick thing is actually a potato, sliced thinly and poked through the stick. Go and check it out yourself. Carmen doesn't know how to explain.

Carmen: Yea..Try ma.
Daddy: Nice ar? (takes a piece from the stick) Tastes like potato chip.
Carmen: Hmm..

It is actually very salty but Carmen is forced to finish it.

Mummy: You all potato la..Big potato and small potato..Don't know buy so many potatoes for what.

Later, eating at McD (Her sister wants to eat her type of potatoes), Carmen eats sweet potatoes for the first time. It doesn't taste that bad really..

And now, Carmen feels sort of stupid..and potato-ish. Boo..
potato, potato, potato..that word looks rather weird to her now.