# More money than salsa

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-money-than-salsa/371670>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 6, 2006, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-money-than-salsa/371670 "2006-09-06T18:00:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2006, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-money-than-salsa/371670/1 "2006-09-06T18:00:34Z")

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[This](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/5320268.stm) has to be the bizarrest story I’ve read for a long time.

Hong Kong businesswoman agrees to pay Italian couple US$15.4 million - yes, _million_ - for unlimited salsa classes for eight years.

During one lesson she gets told to “move her arse” and called a “lazy cow”. Purely in a motivational stylee.

She goes ballistic, sues and gets all the money she’d so far paid back.

15.4 million dollars.

She must really like Mexican food.

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**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2006, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-money-than-salsa/371670/2 "2006-09-06T18:35:46Z")

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[QUOTE=jjimm]  
She must really like Mexican food.  
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Did I just get wooshed, or is this actually about dance lessons?

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**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2006, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-money-than-salsa/371670/3 "2006-09-06T18:37:55Z")

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[QUOTE=Cluricaun]  
Did I just get wooshed, or is this actually about dance lessons?  
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Whooshed so hard it parted your hair.

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**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2006, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-money-than-salsa/371670/4 "2006-09-06T18:44:36Z")

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Swanky. I’ve always had trouble getting a straight part. Thanks for the help. 😃

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**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2006, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-money-than-salsa/371670/5 "2006-09-06T18:50:10Z")

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Evidently couples dancing is very big in Hong Kong. I’ve read that people take dance lessons there the same way that many American businessmen take golf lessons - it’s something you need to be able to do as part of your job.

My ballroom lessons are $90 for four private half-hour lessons, and that covers two people!

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**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2006, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-money-than-salsa/371670/6 "2006-09-06T22:07:09Z")

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That’s almost $5300 per day, if she took lessons 24 hours a day it’s almost $220/hour. If I was the instructor, I’d be worried something fishy was going on. If we use **Zsofia** ’s example and lets say the person took 4 lessons each day, it would still be under $300k for eight years.