Haven't been here in ages but decided on a quick run to pick up some sativa while my laundry was going.
First thing I noticed was the refit to this place. They have moved the dividing glass wall so it is no longer one-third shop and two-thirds smoking room (that is closed). It is now more like two-thirds shop and one-third defunct room.
Also, the plastic menus are gone and replaced with three Dampkring-style (ex Pink-Floyd) sunken digital menus though and a new card machine too I think (dunno if it takes credit cards).
The menu looks a little different too, didn't notice many of the sativa strains before. Anyway I got some Super Silver Haze which looks good but I haven't tasted yet, and a hash joint for €3 which was pretty decent (I'm on a mission to find the best preroll/least ripoff in Amsterdam).
Anyway, here's the weird thing. The SSH was 9.50, the hash joint was 3 euros. So 12.50 total.
I watched the scales on the digital readout to make sure of not getting shorted on the bud (like people here have spoken of). The conversation went like this:
ME - een gram SSH en een hasj jointje alsjeblieft.
HIM - <measuring bud out> you like this?
I thought this was a bizarre question.
ME - yeah. maar ik heb van hier nooit gerookt (yes, but I have never smoked it here)
Then he flashed some papers at me and asked me if I wanted them, I said sure. I did think it was weird to throw me a freebie when only buying a gram of weed and a hash joint.
I did the Dutch thing and gave him money so he could give me exact notes (tip: Dutch like this).
I gave him a fifty Euro note plus a 2 Euro coin and a 50 cent coin. I would expect 40 Euro back in notes.
Instead, he did not want the coins and just took the fifty and returned me 3 tens and 1 fiver.
Now I was a little perplexed here. For some reason (despite being good at maths) I was a bit bamboozled but I knew something was wrong. There should be more change.
I was going to leave it but I interjected and told him it was total 12.50 and I only got back 35. He pointed to the 2 Euro and 50 cent coins in one hand and I said they were mine that he didn't want in the first place.
Then he pointed to my other hand which contained a 2 Euro coin. Had he given me that? I had no recollection but I gave him the benefit of the doubt, said sorry and got out of there.
I knew something was still amiss because of the 50 cent total but I felt like I had been Derren Browned! Assuming he gave me the coin, I worked out he had short changed me 50 cents. Or, to put it another way, I basically paid 50 cents for the papers which is cheaper than usual. So, all in all, I still came out up.
Still, it was a bit of a weird one. He should have given me the extra 50 cents. Maybe he had a lack of change and gave me the papers instead of 50 cents but he never mentioned this proposition. I assumed they were free as you would do if someone offers you them. Maybe, now that I think about it, it was an upsell on his part and he "sold" me them for 50 cents?? Well, he never mentioned that at the time, anytime I have been offered a pack it has always been for free. He gave them to me as if they were free and my reaction to his "gesture" was as if they were free too.
Bit bizarre. Left me a bad vibe. It's funny, I can relate to those who get pissed off with a dealer's attitude. I wasn't even stoned at the time. I WILL go back there from time to time, of course. But it still left me with a bad vibe and I have no desire to return there in the short term
Funny how a coffeeshop experience can do that, I would never give a fuck if some guy in Albert Heijn screwed up so why the difference with a CS?
Nederengels? 