bee keeping

As I am liking to do I will post an approximate conversation. This one is with a woman who is of a traditional honey hunting tribe in kenya.

I approached a stall were there were jars from small peanut butter sized up to 5 gallon bucket sized.

ME: "hello...(greetings)...etc..."

She "hello (greetings)...."

ME: " so is this honey?" With the number of bees that were present it was an educated guess.

She: "ah yes honey...do you want some."

ME: "Is this honey pure? does it have any additives" Adding water is a common way of stretching the amount of honey that you have.

SHE: "no no ...it is pure...do you want a taste"

ME: "Sure..." I said as in my mind I tried to think of any reason why I should,t have some of this honey...not coming up with any I held out my fingers. "Just a little bit." it came out slowly and I got a glob on my finger that contained not only honey, but also a leg of bee....then I ate it. Tasted like pure honey to me. so now for the price... "so how much is this bottle of honey?"

SHE: "this one is 600"

ME: "600!!?? Oh that is too much. What is a better price?" Always haggling with a smile)

SHE: "ummm you know I can give it to you for 500. You know we have to travel from far far away to bring this honey here"

ME: "500?!! you know I too have had to walk from over that hill over there...so you know that I am not a tourist...what is the real price? "

SHE: "ummm for this bottle I can do 400."

ME: "what about 300?

SHE : "300?!!!, you know we had to come from a long way off and we robbed the bees of this honey and....400"

ME: "oh okay...well, then I guess that I can not buy today" and I walked away without honey.