Shanghai Bob

Well, it’s not just Chinese people who talk about foreigners thinking they can’t understand.  I got into the elevator here in my apartment building and saw a couple already in there.  As I got on, the guy started saying to his wife, in Japanese,  ”Wow, look at him, he’s really big.  Look how big he is!”  After a few floors of this, I said, also in Japanese, “Be careful, I can understand you.”  He was surprised enough to blurt, “あれ?!”.  His wife didn’t seem surprised (there are lots of expats in my building); she poked him in the stomach as a kind of reproach.

This entry was posted on Monday, May 25th, 2009 at 4:07 am and is filed under china.