A bargain of leather jackets on a street of London, England 2019/Carlos Pueblo

A bargain of leather jackets on a street of London, England 2019/Carlos Pueblo

One afternoon I was out on the street to a sandwich restaurant to purchase my dinner, a car was pull in front of me and the driver rolled down his window saying that he wanted to give me two leather jackets. He asked me where I was from and I answered. He introduced himself as an Italian gambler who lost all his fund at the casino by the Baywater Tube Station. I said that there was no free lunch and I was not handsome enough to receive free gifts. He asked me how much cash in my wallet. I replied it as 15 British Pound, one 10 and a 5 bills. He said that was alright and handed me two jackets in clear plastic covers. He watched me pulling out cash from my wallet and noticed that there was a 50 Euro bill. He asked me to help him more and gave him that 50 Euro to help purchase the petroleum, gasoline we called it in the States. He said those two jackets were more than 1000 pounds. I asked him to return my pounds and gave him my euros. Once he got the euros, he was hesitated to give me back the pounds. We argued and tore down a 5 pound bill, then, I decided to abort the bargain yet he left. I carried two jackets to get my sandwich.

Back to the hostel while no body was at the room, I placed the new purchase into my small luggage, they were brand new fashion jackets made in Italy, as a matter of fact that he was an English speaking Italian. A nice tag was attached to each item called, Emporio Collection made in Italy. A brown one is lighter than a black one yet a bit larger than my size while the black one fit me well. They were there in my luggage on the Tube train, long distance train to Manchester, two free bus tours at the city, flight back via check in service, and three transfer on Houston Metro buses and a light rail. Amy noticed my new purchase and asked me how much. She said they were not real leather after she made a detail smell of both jackets. I didn't care because the cost was very minimum. I did find the identical leather jacket  at Macy's on internet with different quoted prices.

Since then, I have made two cruise trips, one to Alaska in June and another one to Quebec City in September. I took both jackets to Alaska and the heavier one to Quebec City in order to test the warmness of the material. All my adopted daughters have no ideas to distinguish the fake leather from the true one. Only Jenny could tell the full name of the merchandise, Emporio Armani, yet she said that she knew nothing. She mentioned that there is no longer with a leather smell for such expansive item. I felt better until another staff clerk told me that the black one was a fake and the brown one was real. She comforts me as long as I like it.

I wore a new pairs of leather dress shoes on board and kept them very shine all the time. Daughters love to take photos with me the same on the Quebec City Route. I dressed up for all the dinner engagements on board and had had a very good time. It was very warm and comfortable in cold weather.

Before boarding on the second cruise ship, I visited a Macy's store at a new high rise building at Hudson Yard projects a the end of the High Line Park, NYC. I did find a leather jacket identical to mine yet the salesman didn't want to discuss more about the fake jacket if there was any.