I thought she was mad, but I clearly needed serious coaching, so Yvonne stood behind the stallholder and fed me my lines by mouthing at me.
The stallholder came after me and sold me the shoes for HK$60.
The recovery is palpable here ("Britain seems to be doing well compared with the rest of Europe", asserts a stallholder selling handbags in Beeston, part of Broxtowe).
"They're all in it for themselves," says a brawny stallholder of politicians generally.Many Britons want nothing to do with politics.
One stallholder, Yu-chai, tells how his parents, who were farmers, fled Guangdong province at the time of Japan's invasion of China.
"Everybody loves her", says a Filipina stallholder selling cassava cakes.Well, not quite everybody.
The travelling hoop-la stallholder, whose early attractions included Dare Devil Peggy, a one-legged high-diver, opened his first resort in Skegness in 1936, offering full board and free entertainment from 35s per week (£85 in today's money).
Buy 'em now in case stockmarkets don't last".As the recession deepens, finance ministers round the world may be forced to resort to the tactics of the market stallholder.
Getting a stallholder in Fez to take back damaged goods is a tall order.
On to the Globe stage he poured all the raging pain of a Camden night, peopled with homeless nutters and hopeless actors and a hamburger stallholder in a Celtic shirt.
I'm now tempted to enrol in Angela's cooking school, but for those who don't live in Acton, you can sample her products at east London's foodie haven Borough Market, where she was recently inducted as a stallholder.
