Oct 3rd, 2008

Woke up at 8am and got ready and breakfast at 9:30. Called our friend, Mustafa, to return the car at the airport. When the car had originally broken down at Gallipoli, he had told us that he would refund one day's charges - now he said that he couldn't do that because Meriam (his boss) wouldn't let him do so if he picked the car at the airport. We told him to talk to her again and called back after half hour - now he said he wouldn't refund even if we returned the car at his shop! We told him to meet us at the airport and we will talk.

We shopped around for a while and then drove to the airport. Mustafa was there shortly. A's first weapon was senti. He took the three useless CDs we had bought and told Mustafa that this was a gift for him! The guy was already in guilt! However, he refused to refund us the amount. We told him that in that case we weren't going to return the car and went inside the airport - now he seemed under real pressure. He seemed to be trying to reach Meriam but apparently couldn't - said he had no cash that he could give us. We went inside security and then he came up and offered part of the money. That was relieving! We could have been in a soup if he had complained to local police that we were taking his car keys. And it felt good to not walk away ripped off!