# Local shopkeeper describes two months of slow business

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2121344895117832306
- Source account: [@SerpilOzkan99](https://x.com/SerpilOzkan99)
- Source language: Turkish
- Target language: English
- Duration: 1:04
- Published: 2026-11-14
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- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/B7REL40p4IIh/en/local-shopkeeper-describes-two-months-of-slow-business
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## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/B7REL40p4IIh/en/local-shopkeeper-describes-two-months-of-slow-business) You're closing, man. Opened early. Brother, man. We're waiting. Waiting for the lodge to open.

[0:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/B7REL40p4IIh/en/local-shopkeeper-describes-two-months-of-slow-business?t=5) There's no work, nothing. Nothing's been moving for two months.

[0:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/B7REL40p4IIh/en/local-shopkeeper-describes-two-months-of-slow-business?t=10) After these recent events, before that, at least people would come, they'd eat pizza, they'd eat hamburgers.

[0:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/B7REL40p4IIh/en/local-shopkeeper-describes-two-months-of-slow-business?t=15) Hey, look, come on, come on, brother, come on.

[0:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/B7REL40p4IIh/en/local-shopkeeper-describes-two-months-of-slow-business?t=17) Come on, sit down. It's empty. The shop watches me, I watch it.

[0:23](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/B7REL40p4IIh/en/local-shopkeeper-describes-two-months-of-slow-business?t=23) Is there anything? No, not really. What can we do? Should I wait outside?

[0:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/B7REL40p4IIh/en/local-shopkeeper-describes-two-months-of-slow-business?t=28) People are struggling, man. We can't get out of this mess.

[0:32](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/B7REL40p4IIh/en/local-shopkeeper-describes-two-months-of-slow-business?t=32) People used to come, eat their food, have their drinks.

[0:35](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/B7REL40p4IIh/en/local-shopkeeper-describes-two-months-of-slow-business?t=35) Not now, man. It's students, after all. We mostly cater to students.

[0:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/B7REL40p4IIh/en/local-shopkeeper-describes-two-months-of-slow-business?t=38) Students have no money. We're stuck, man.

[0:42](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/B7REL40p4IIh/en/local-shopkeeper-describes-two-months-of-slow-business?t=42) Honestly, I just hope that at least this— that these circumstances improve soon, so we can make a living and get by.

[0:50](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/B7REL40p4IIh/en/local-shopkeeper-describes-two-months-of-slow-business?t=50) The greengrocer sits. Go, the butcher's sitting too.

[0:55](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/B7REL40p4IIh/en/local-shopkeeper-describes-two-months-of-slow-business?t=55) There, go sit over there. Even the delivery guy sits.

[0:57](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/B7REL40p4IIh/en/local-shopkeeper-describes-two-months-of-slow-business?t=57) What can I do, bro? We sit too, you know. Then you say to him, “Why are you waiting on your feet?”

[1:02](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/B7REL40p4IIh/en/local-shopkeeper-describes-two-months-of-slow-business?t=62) I'll wait, bro. I have no choice.