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Honeymoon and KKK

03/11/09

Permalink 06:43:31 pm, by admin Email , 283 words   English (US)
Categories: ...and Takes On, Travel, 사랑?, America, Things I'd Forgotten About, Politics, 결혼식

Honeymoon and KKK

Last weekend Good Man and I went away for a little weekend honeymoon. Photos are in the Gallery.

We spent the weekend at the Lantern Lane Farm B&B, in a room we got at a great last-minute price. I would highly recommend this place. Nice people, great room, and they even managed to get a cake for us with very little notice!

Our first night there, we went out for dinner. Good Man wanted Italian. We walked into a very busy Italian restaurant and the waitress started to look for a seat. Meanwhile, to my left, there were two old white men eating. Both were wearing white tunics and one had a blue robe over it with all these symbols on it. His back was to me but his partner was just glaring at us.

I studied the man's robe just long enough to figure out what it was.

The waitress was trying to tell us where we could sit (at the end of a table next to another group of people) and I was trying to catch Good Man's eye and I finally said in Korean, "We can not eat here. We are going. We will talk outside." He was so confused and I just kept saying, very quietly, and in Korean, "We will talk outside."

I smiled a fake smile to the waitress and said we weren't interested in waiting. She looked at us, glanced at the robed men, and nodded. She knew exactly why we were leaving.

Outside I said, "키읔키읔키읔." ㅋㅋㅋ Which would be giggling in Korean, but which I was saying because it's the closest letter to K.

KKK.

We had dinner at a Chinese restaurant that night.

(한국어)

7 comments

Comment from: Diana [Visitor] · http://storysinger81.blogspot.com/
Poor Good Man! :(

...Though they tend not to be as openly hostile to Asians as they are to hispanics and blacks.
03/11/09 @ 19:15
Comment from: umma2kimchilovers [Visitor]
I checked out the B&B's website. It looks lovely.
I don't understand how the KKK can still exist in this day and age.
03/11/09 @ 23:29
Comment from: Wanda in AR [Visitor]
How terrible. Unfortunately, they are very much alive in this day. It is just sad that they can have soooo much hate and be so hostile to anyone that isn't white.
03/12/09 @ 10:25
Comment from: Milly [Visitor]
Huh? That just boggles my mind!

Talk about a different take on getting all dressed up for dinner!

It's so easy to forget that people like that still roam the earth... It's different somehow, but I guess it's related to the funny looks my husband and I get from the older Korean ladies at the Korean grocery store.

Congratulations on being hitched and I hope the rest of your honeymoon was filled with other kinds of excitement!!!

:)
03/12/09 @ 11:37
Comment from: Katie [Visitor] · http://stagestitches.blogspot.com
I hope it didn't ruin your evening. Their ignorance shouldn't have that much import. It boggles the mind that we live in the 21st century and some people still think that skin color is something that divides us. What idiots.

Photos are cute!
03/12/09 @ 16:10
Comment from: Lunalil [Visitor] · http://lunalil.com
That's scary :( I haven't run into those people since I was really young.
03/17/09 @ 09:02
Comment from: Gori Girl [Visitor] · http://gorigirl.com
Guh. And that's why I'm worried to stray much beyond NoVa....

What idiots indeed.
05/08/09 @ 00:10

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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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