Saturday, September 19, 2009

The funniest thing happened the other day.  Ben, Jeremy and I were sitting outside of shamrock, a little convenient store that we go to sometimes after work, having a beer.  We had just sat down and were talking about what prize we were going to try and get from the Laser Target machine, a horrible horrible creation that is very good at sucking away our money.  Ben had bought an ice cream cone that he was happily eating and Jeremy and I are cracking open our first beer.  Ben is talking about how great the ice cream is:
"Man this really hits the spot.  I needed this man I love ice cream.  Who would've thought that Koreans can make good prepackaged ice cream cones just as well as westerners?"  He takes another bite and chews away contentedly for a few seconds when out of nowhere this big Korean guy runs up, snatches the ice cream out of Ben's hand, takes a bite and starts running away.  
Stunned, we all watch him take a few steps away before I yell, "Hey! What the hell man?"
At this the guy rumbles to a halt, turns around, meekly comes back and hands me the ice cream cone.  Then he turns back around and books it down the street.  The three of us are left sitting there as confused as we've ever been.  I'm watching a half eaten ice cream cone melting in my hand and I realize it's not mine.  I hand it sheepishly to Ben.  We sit and we stare at it for a few seconds before Jeremy and I start cracking up,
"What the **** was that all about?"  We're all laughing at this point even Ben;
"What?  I mean what?" says Ben, "Man, that cone was so good to, I can't eat it now, but . . . aw goddamit"  One of the workers at the restaurant next door to Shamrock comes out;
"Did you see that man?  That was nuts"  He nods an affirmative and makes the crazy sign, twisting his finger in a circle around his ear.  That explains it I guess but all in all, it was a pretty ridiculous happening that I will say would have made my day had the three of us not won the really sweet remote control car we did from that Laser Target game about , awesome.  What amazing way to start a thursday night. 

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  2. Paaat!!!!!!! Well first I have to say this is the funniest thing i've read in a while...at first i thought you were gonna say that the big Korean guy was a friend of Andy's or something cuz we know he would do something like that...but anyway thanks for the posts on my blog both the coherent and incoherent ones...in response to your first post i would love to meet up with you guys but im not sure I can do Christmas...i've made plans for Christmas already. But I'm planning a trip to the Australian Open in January, I know its kind of far from you but hey its Australia! If your interested let me know...Yea your experience with the vans in Gambia sound just like here in Indonesia, except the sad thing is that whenever our groups hops in an angkot the indonesians that were already in there tend to hop out...we don't know if they are nervous to sit with us or think we are obnoxious...oh well. Send me some teaching tips! I start teaching in a little over a week...yikes! Alright well love ya buddy and hope to hear from you soon. We should probably skype soon.

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