Is there no one else?
True story i heard from a friend...
My friend comes from a family of goldsmiths and his dad owns a traditional jewellery shop somewhere in Chinatown. One fine day, this Chinese National entered the shop and decided to purchase some jewellery. Now my friend's dad has never been a big fan of Mainland Chinese and his general perception of them is that they are:
- Picky
- Difficult to Serve
- Stingy
- Want Cheap, Want Fresh, Want Big Breast
This particular Chinese fella fell smack in the middle of the above classification and after hours and hours of choosing, trying, bargaining and all, he settles for a few pieces. After being told the price...
China : "Can i pay in RMB?"
Dad : "No, only Singapore dollars!"
China : "Ok, where is the toilet?"
Dad : "Go out, turn left!"
At this point of time you must be thinking, shouldn't he be looking for an ATM or a money changer? Why the toilet? Ah.... according to dad, the Chinese are very careful with their money and in order to prevent theft, they keep their cash in, get this, their underwear! Yep, they literally stuff wades of cash in their underwear! True enough, 5 minutes later, Chinaman appears from the toilet with a thick stack of sweat-stained (Like salted vegetables) cash in his hands. Next stop? Money changer of course, Chinaman calmly walks towards the money changer which is a few units away from dad's shop.
The money changer, whose race i will not mention because i don't want to go to jail, took the stack of RMB and began counting them. Okay, think! This is a money changer in Chinatown, so do you think they will have those "high-tech" pads to wet their fingers before counting the cash? No right? So what did poor money changer do?
Yep, he licked...
1 Comments:
excellent! good build-up.
ching
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