Dear few friends who still read my blog: Please understand that the following post is my ENTP need to have an interesting discussion.
In SE Asia I was traveling with my friend Lukas. He's my German friend that helped me see the place my great-great-grandfather came from.
I was very happy to travel with him in SE Asia in late 2014. He has been everywhere I wanted to go: Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand. Before I met up with him in Bangkok I said, "I want to see it all and we are not going by bus." So we did a series of short trips by plane from Bangkok to Siem Reap (awesome) to Phnom Pen (disgusting) to Saigon (interesting) to Hue (quaint) to Da Nang (awesome) to Hanoi (surprisingly interesting). I paid for his flights because he would have never made those flights; he would have gone by bus or - because he had already been there - he wouldn't have gone back to those cities.
So.... during the course of the trip I gave him money when he had not already converted it from euros. I didn't keep track; I didn't care. At the end of the trip he told me owed me $200. I was like, "Ok, whatever."
A month passes.
He still doesn't have my IBAN number to send the money to my account (that's my mistake). I finally gave it to him. He says, "I will send the euros I owe you." The problem? During the month the US dollar has appreciated 10% vs. the euro. Sending me the euros means I lost 10%.
Should he send me $200 which is what I am expecting or should he send me 160 euros which is what he had in his mind when I gave him money?
In SE Asia I was traveling with my friend Lukas. He's my German friend that helped me see the place my great-great-grandfather came from.
I was very happy to travel with him in SE Asia in late 2014. He has been everywhere I wanted to go: Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand. Before I met up with him in Bangkok I said, "I want to see it all and we are not going by bus." So we did a series of short trips by plane from Bangkok to Siem Reap (awesome) to Phnom Pen (disgusting) to Saigon (interesting) to Hue (quaint) to Da Nang (awesome) to Hanoi (surprisingly interesting). I paid for his flights because he would have never made those flights; he would have gone by bus or - because he had already been there - he wouldn't have gone back to those cities.
So.... during the course of the trip I gave him money when he had not already converted it from euros. I didn't keep track; I didn't care. At the end of the trip he told me owed me $200. I was like, "Ok, whatever."
A month passes.
He still doesn't have my IBAN number to send the money to my account (that's my mistake). I finally gave it to him. He says, "I will send the euros I owe you." The problem? During the month the US dollar has appreciated 10% vs. the euro. Sending me the euros means I lost 10%.
Should he send me $200 which is what I am expecting or should he send me 160 euros which is what he had in his mind when I gave him money?
