Don Bacho & Bedina Daagdo ... -
They strapped the massive wardrobe to Gogi. The donkey looked at them with profound betrayal. As they began the steep descent, the trail grew narrow. Don Bacho took the front, and Bedina took the back, steadying the wardrobe as it swayed like a drunken giant.
Bedina walked over, wiped purple juice from his lip, and pointed down at the river. "Look on the bright side, Bacho. You wanted it in the valley. It’s in the valley. And we didn’t even have to walk the rest of the way." DON BACHO & BEDINA daagdo ...
At that exact moment, Gogi the donkey decided he had had enough of family heirlooms. With a sudden shimmy, the straps snapped. The wardrobe teetered. "Bedina, hold it!" Bacho screamed. They strapped the massive wardrobe to Gogi
Bedina arrived, leaning lazily against his donkey, Gogi. "Bacho, that wardrobe is larger than my house. Why not just burn it and tell people it was stolen by a ghost?" "It’s an heirloom," Bacho insisted. "We carry it." Don Bacho took the front, and Bedina took
Silence fell over the mountain. Bacho crawled out of the mud, his face a mask of fury. "My grandmother’s wardrobe! You told me to daagdo ?"
Don Bacho and Bedina are legendary, lighthearted figures often featured in rural Georgian folk humor and local anecdotes. Their stories usually revolve around their cleverness, stubbornness, or comical misunderstandings of modern life. In Georgian dialects, (
The sun was barely kissing the peaks of the Caucasus when Don Bacho stood outside his stone hut, scratching his chin. He had a problem: a giant, ancient wooden wardrobe that had belonged to his grandmother. It was heavy, smelled of mothballs and history, and needed to go to the village at the bottom of the valley.