Checking availability

4th of December

I entered the booking-hut along the beach. It felt cheap all over. The woman behind the desk rose up and pointed her hand at one of the bamboo-chairs.
"Hello, please seat!"
"Hello, do you have any bus tickets, sleeper, from here to Mumbai for tomorrow?"
"You want from Goa to Mumbai?"
"Well, yes."
"Bus or train?"
"As said, a bus ticket sleeper."
"Okay, do you want to book?"
"No, I don’t have the money with me, but I would like to know if there are tickets available."
"Bus to Mumbai?"
"Yes."
"Today?"
"No, as I said, tomorrow."
"Okay, we have."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes."
"Because the place I asked yesterday didn’t knew and had to check."
"You was here?"
"No, it was another place. Do you know that you have tickets?"
"Yes."
"So I can book it now if I want to?"
"I call and check if there is tickets."
She took up big black phone and slowly pressed in a number, proximately a number a second. She looked as if she hated her job. A few minutes later did she hang up.
"650."
"What? I'm sorry, I don't understand."
"650."
"Yeas, I know the price, I didn’t ask for that. Is there any tickets left for tomorrow?"
"Sleepers?"
"Yes. Are there tickets?"
"Yes."
"Good, then I’ll come back later."
"You don’t want to book?"
"As I said, I only asked if there was tickets so I could come back, because I don’t have the money on me."
"You don’t have money?"
"I'll see you later…"

It's hard to make yourself understood, and sometimes frustrating.