Funny stories

I gotta take better care of this blog, but then there a lot of things I oughta do.

Let's see if I can remember my funny stories:
So I'm walking home from work and I see one of my students glance and double-take at me. And I notice her Dad, the professional wrestler, is sitting at one of the outdoor eating tables (pervasive for most of the year around here), along with the owner of my school. So I can't help saying hello, and they can't help but invite me to sit. So I oblige and sit down. First they serve me makgoli (my favorite Korean alcohol, almost renamed drunken rice recently), and then start feeding me (I mean chopsticks to my face to eat out of) these gnarly squids I've been watching swim around in a shallow bucket outside my apartment for a month or so. Of course they were concerned I was hungry, so they purchased another to get chopped up. and I was talked into eating weird little shellfish that had to be literally sucked out of their spiral shell. Then I finally bit the bullet and with a little booze and a lot of spicy sauce tried bondegi- silkworm larvae, from what I understand.

After dinner they ask me if I want to go out for another beer, and I say sure. The Dad and "Honey" left on a pretty adorable bike (I tried to wedge myself into some tickets, but he claimed he didn't know when he would next wrestle). The third businessman who I forgot to previously mention, the one chopstick-feeding me food, is persistently calling me his brother. We make our way to a sexy bar I had been tempted by before, Music and Girl Karaoke Bar. Having been to only one sexy bar before, I can safely say it's much better with older Korean dudes. We were at all times catered by no less than 1 or 2 beautiful and flirtatious women. My companions keep embarassing me by comparing everyone with Kim Yuh-Na (my mistake of an answer for what my "type" or Korean girl is- they all are).

Fortunately, Mr. Park, the owner decided to send me home knowing I had a long day of work ahead. Still I was proud to have introduced 2 Koreans into loving Hoegarden, and meeting a Karate star (forgot to mention him from the bar), and gotten a sexy- bar- waitress' phone number.

The next day we did one of our 2 field trips to Home Plus, the huge supermarket that everyone in Korea, including foreigners, feel at home in.


What's my other story? I ran into Larry who worked at the Long Beach library, for my 4th time in Korea, all spontaneous and unplanned.

There was the time I ran across the street, and a black woman with a black face mask said something to the tune of my life being in my own hands.

Ah I think I remember the other story. I'm sure there's a third. But, in Incheon we were drawn into the carnival attractions on the coast. James the Irish insisted we had to ride on, I forget what he called them, but I call them pirate ships (you know the ride that goes back and forth). Well just before we leave, we decide to get on one. It doesn't go all the way upside down, but basically pushes as far as it can without that. We notice, on top of the stomachs in our throat feeling, that the bars feel like they are coming loose as we are almost head over feet in the air. Well we thought the, ABSOLUTELY CRAZY, ride operator was being generous when he offered a second "survis"(they're giving you something for free in Korean) ride. Well now I might have called Dave paranoid as we approached the apex of the ride, until I noticed, in fact, the ride operator was standing outside of his booth and pushing the button to release our lap bars at the height of the ride. Did he want us to die? Did he want to scare us shitless? He surely would have never passed the test to be a ride operator in the states.

ok, crazy story: Last weekend I went to meet with a girl who turned out to be one of the million misleading flirts in this country. While walking about, I catch the scene of a blind woman being pulled at by an older male. It's not that unusual to see people dragging one another and making a big fuss on the other end. Well things got more and more saucy, until the man decided to let her go... and high-kick her to the noggin. So nuts. Not quite sure what to say to something like that.

With that I should get back to the most basic of needs here, cleaning and laundry. Meditation and better blog maintenance to come later as my stay becomes more level headed, or something.

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