Which Reminds Me

Yes, truly, I would not mind paying them a little backsheesh to grease the wheels of commerce, the backsheesh being a term for tips that one may have to pay to the waiter or vendor who jacks up the price or the tour guide or whoever it is. However, there is a limit to how much backsheesh one should have to pay to an impudent tour guide. Sometimes these people imagine that white people are a source of infinitely unlimited backsheesh, and this is unrealistic and must be discouraged. There is a limit to the backsheesh budget and at some point the backsheesh revenues must stop and/or come to an end, and we must bid farewell to the tour guide who has to go back to his own place.