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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Krasnaya Vityaz, post: 79803, member: 1791&quot;]If you get bad service in Russia, you pay with Russian currency, good service you pay with dollars.&nbsp; Once I was in a market in Khabarovsk, in Far East of Russia.&nbsp; I was buying curtains for my windows from a seller there and ran out of Ruble notes, I offered her dollars instead, something like three dollars.&nbsp; It was funny, she looked at the three one dollar bills in the sunlight, saw no watermark, and handed them back to me, said they were no good, cannot take them, rubles only please.&nbsp; Her friend practically slapped her senseless and called her a fool, so she ended up taking my three dollars.</p><p><br /></p><p>In another instance I had bags carried up to the ninth floor of hotel there, the porter was rude and slow.&nbsp; So I give him ruble note.&nbsp; He threw it back, says dollars only.&nbsp; I say no dollars, what you think I am American or something.!</p><p><br /></p><p>In the USSR days it was not legal to own dollars, they could be confiscated and yourself put in jail.&nbsp; But practically anybody with any sense had them<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; Now everybody have them, including those with no sense.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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