The "Faces of Strangers #27" Story

It was an ordinary day.  Checking out the neat yellow Vespa sitting near the market place in Marigot on the island of St. Martin.  The Vespa belonged to a young man by the name of Jamal who was working the market place trying to sell his Ma Doudou rum products. Ma Doudou is a rum product that is sold primarily in painted bottles labeled "Rhum Ma Doudou."  The product is made in a little workshop in the French Cul-du-sac section of St. Martin, FWI.  

Jamal

I have been purchasing the product for many years and after drinking the flavored rum, use the hand-painted bottles to store small amounts of sand I collect from beaches around the Caribbean.  Well, Jamal, as Carol and I found out, is the nephew of the owners of Ma Doudou and has been at the Marigot marketplace for about two months with his bright yellow Vespa displaying and selling the Ma Doudou products.  The handsome young man is fun to talk with as he tells us of all the products he has available on his Vespa.  We told him of our visit to the workshop a few years ago to watch his family paint the bottles and eventually bottle the flavored rum.  We told him we had just bought a few bottles at the local Grande Marche as gifts for our family in the States.  I shook his hand and as we left I noticed he had some paying customers waiting to buy his rum.  It was another extrarodinary day in the life of an ordinary guy.