"Well, that would have a bit more of a foundation in reality wouldn't it but then would I really be showing slides?"
"Our mother's birthday is next week. If the two of us were not your distant cousins from the tiny former kingdom of Laos, now a bankrupt communist state of rural peasants, we might even pay you to draw her or for that matter my sister."
"No money," the girl laughed as she slumped down in the seat.
"Only rice sometimes."
"Is it expensive to do that?"
"What?"
"Commission a painting."
"Yes. Quite."
"A thousand baht"
"Sometimes times fifty."
"Are you that rich?"