I only recognised "keskusta" and said "I'm sorry mate, I don't speak Finnish well yet".
He double takked and said in English back to me "Oh, don't worry, neither can I"
Turns out he'd been drinking (as if that wasn't clear from the smell) and wanted to get into the center to get some more booze (it was after lunch by now). So he asked me "can you please drive me into town, its cold and I don't have any gloves or a pipo" (which he didn't). I could understand the problem as being -18°C with a breeze too, his ears must have been cold.
I thought about it and thought "what the hell" and said I'd take him. No point in having him hospitalized for exposure too ... his coat wasn't real warm looking.
When we got there he went to shake my hand and so I reached over to shake his hand but then:
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he turned my hand over and kissed the back of my hand while saying how wonderful and kind I was....
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oh
my
god
what do you say about this?
I thanked him and said it wasn't really necessary, and as he got out of the car he reached into his coat and pulled out his last can of beer, asking me "would I like to take a drink"
as we were holding up traffic I said "no thanks" and off I went.
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