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Hiding and Rude Taxi Drivers

10/19/07

Permalink 10:19:36 pm, by admin Email , 252 words   English (US)
Categories: ...and Takes On, Korea, 사랑?

Hiding and Rude Taxi Drivers

Tomorrow at 6pm I go to army training session in my town's elementary school on a playground to see some videos and lectures and also "hiking with m16" (used in Korean war or sth) guns.

I found it odd that he'd do this at an elementary school. Good Man's response? "The kids won't be there."

Then, tonight, he was texting me from the military meeting.

Me: How are you SMSing me from army thing?

Good Man: Hiding.

Me: Where?

Good Man: Army hat.

Me, using the only specific "hat" word I know: 철모? Steel helmet?

Good Man: No, regular.

***

Last night's taxi ride home was the weirdest taxi ride I've ever had in Korea, and that counts the one where the driver was speaking rapid-fire at me with Mom and George in the taxi, sort of in shock that I was, for the most part, holding my own.

He was asking the standard taxi driver questions. Where are you from, what do you do, how do you like Korea, do you have a boyfriend, etc. No big deal, conversation was business as usual. Then...

"Do you sleep with your boyfriend?"

Sure I was mishearing him, I said, "What?" He repeated himself and I stared at him. "I don't understand, I think." He repeated it again, more forcefully, then started making weird...noises... I dropped to the low form of speech and yelled, "You are very rude!" We were literally one turn away from my house, so I got out and refused to pay.

3 comments

Comment from: Robbin [Visitor] Email
Awesome!!!!
10/20/07 @ 03:37
Comment from: Diana [Visitor] Email · http://storysinger81.blogspot.com/
Dear lord that taxi driver is horrid. I'm getting used to all the personal questions we're asked here, but I'm pretty sure that kind of information crosses a line in all cultures. Yikes!
10/20/07 @ 14:07
Comment from: admin [Member] Email
Yeah, last night we went out with Jennifer and Gym Guy again. I was telling the story and Gym Guy said, "You can say 'f*** you!', too!"
10/21/07 @ 07:29

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An American educator moves moved to Korea, presumably to teach English. Instead she discovers discovered that learning Korean one taekwondo class at a time is was a more captivating activity.

Somewhere along the way, she met a Good Man, fell in love, and ended up back in the States. Still doing taekwondo, still learning Korean...

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