Saturday, June 19, 2004
Rain and umbrellas
So it rained all day today, and it was raining hard when KiSook and I left the tea shop feeling at least a little lit (the lemon soju is pretty strong here compared to at Temple). Whenever we went into a store, they gave you this plastic sleeve to put your umbrella in and you give it back to them when you leave. It startled me at first, but makes sense.
What didn't make sense was that people leave their umbrellas outside when they go into the art galleries and some of the stores and restaurants. After we did that a few times, I said to KiSook that I couldn't understand why our umbrellas didn't get stolen. In New York, they'd last approximately the same amount of time as Stephen Hawking would last in a sumo match.
That reminds me of one more thing. When I went to "Carrafour" (when you write it in Korean, it's "Carrapu" which sounds f**king hilarious to me) with Miss Lee, we got a shopping cart. The carts are all chained together and you need to put in 100 won to unlock a car. A hundred won ("peg won") is about a dime. No big deal. So we go shopping and take the cart back, and you get your 100 won back. WTF? I didn't understand at all, but it was my first full day in town so I guess I glossed over it.
But anyway, there is a typhoon heading into town tomorrow. I can't imagine that it will be the most positive experience of my life, but I bet that my clothes will all be clean on Monday and I'll have a headache from too much Korean TV.
What didn't make sense was that people leave their umbrellas outside when they go into the art galleries and some of the stores and restaurants. After we did that a few times, I said to KiSook that I couldn't understand why our umbrellas didn't get stolen. In New York, they'd last approximately the same amount of time as Stephen Hawking would last in a sumo match.
That reminds me of one more thing. When I went to "Carrafour" (when you write it in Korean, it's "Carrapu" which sounds f**king hilarious to me) with Miss Lee, we got a shopping cart. The carts are all chained together and you need to put in 100 won to unlock a car. A hundred won ("peg won") is about a dime. No big deal. So we go shopping and take the cart back, and you get your 100 won back. WTF? I didn't understand at all, but it was my first full day in town so I guess I glossed over it.
But anyway, there is a typhoon heading into town tomorrow. I can't imagine that it will be the most positive experience of my life, but I bet that my clothes will all be clean on Monday and I'll have a headache from too much Korean TV.
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they have those cart things in the suburbs in the US sometimes! you put a quarter in---it's so they don't hafta hire so many ppl to collect shopping carts in the parking lot [since most shoppers want their quarter back]. they also have them for those airport baggage things sometimes. my cousin used to run around putting stray carts back to get cash [oh man, the days when all the cash you needed was to play at the arcade...]
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