french target in bali = carrefour

Today Jon was helping do what guru pitka says is the best way to get what you want (or something??) DISTRACTION! So we went on a mission to Carrefour- the target of Bali!
So Carrefour is in this giant westernized mall, that makes you feel like you are right back in Singapore, even down to the little stores with the competing hard core techno blasting out- with ten employees standing around the empty store looking bored out of their minds! Several other things to note about Carrefour:

1. the whole thing smells like an unchanged litter box. No seriously- its massive, like a warehouse full of anything you could ever want but as you browse through racks of cassette types, the likes of Craig David circa the year 2000, you cannot seem to escape the pungent smell of urine/litter box either or really! Jon was so nunplussed about it when I commented on the smell- he was like “yeah like a littler box eh?”haha
2. Several of the eight million employees have benn entrusted the honor of wearing rollerblades. Yes. Rollerblades- so they can more speedily attend to your requests ( speedily has to then account for island time so it pretty much factors into the same omount of time it would take for someone to help you who was NOT wearing rollerblades!)
3. When you check out, if they ring in something you don’t want ( like today when jon vetoed a bag of coffee that costs the equivalent of 2 us dollars) they grab this big wooden stick with flags all over it and wave it furiously until someone in a suit comes to help them VOID. It’s a big process- my advice- just buy it. Its two dollars or a massive display and time consuming affair to not pay the 2 dollars…
4. there is a KFC and an A and W in this mall – these things excite jon very much – we went to the a and w to sample some “ all American food” as is their slogan. All American apparently includes the idil fitri packet- fried chicken wing, ball of rice and a root beer! And to be even further from the American dream, if you don’t want ‘chicken strips’ (‘all white meat’)you can in fact order “chicken chunks” (who knows what meat)

all in all Carrefour is the cheapest place to buy stuff – even though if you want to buy a towel they weigh it and sell it to you per 100grams!!  the best part was they had a bookstore and I got to buy yet another jodi piccoult book! I think I have officially put one of her kids through college ( well at least through some fancy pre-school!!)