shopping trip: part 1 (old cairo strip mall--perfume shop)

My driver, Abdul, suggested I try this totally undescript strip mall in Old Cairo because the quality of stuff at Khan al-Khalid sucked and he was right...after a couple of shops I ended up in a perfumerie (is that a word?) and they made me smell a slew of perfumes...I had no time for their bullshit so I would often cut him off and tell him to show me what I asked for...he insisted I was part Egyptian and told him eventually I was from Aleppo...and for some reason they kept calling me Lebanese...I didn't get that...then the salesman called me Indian...and I realized that was a racist way of calling me cheap...then he came around and I convinced him to throw more stuff into the deal and I got a couple of free items...so essentially I was paying for the experience...the stuff was good but I could've hageled down if I wanted...but they pissed me off enough that I wasn't having it...I hate people assuming westerners are chumps...I even made the salesman take a photo of me (pictured top left)...it was all rather fun...the place was rather nice and westerners streamed in...they also made me and my driver coffee (left)...