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[Ya-ta Boy]

So, it�s nearly the end of the first week of my new job here in the Golden City of the North (of SOUTH Korea) and so I get home at 5:15 and dither around about making my own roast chicken with Cajun sausage stuffing or go out to the only place where I don�t have to put out any effort. So what would you do? I, so lax and lazy, decide to take the easy way out.

I was so not interested in cooking supper. So I decided to go to the one and ONLY restaurant in my apartment complex, between the friendly convenience store and the not-so-friendly convenience store. (There are no other restaurants or any other businesses within about a mile and a half or so of this place.) So I have somehow managed to land myself in the worst of two possible situations� so quiet and so comfortable but so inconvenient country-living and so expensive and inconvenient urban polluted nightmarish living.

So I put on my coat and scarf and pick up my collected works of Mark Twain and head out into the oh so cold evening, only to discover an oh so full moon. So that was cool. It was a very minor achievement of the day, and walk the 100 meters or so to the grilled-over-charcoal pieces of chicken restaurant.

So I�m sitting there eating my grilled chicken with hot and oh so spicy chicken and reading the oh so great Mark Twain, minding my own sweet business (with my glasses laying on the table because I�ve never adjusted to bifocals) when I notice some movement. Someone is waving at me. So at first, I didn�t know they were waving at ME, I just knew someone was making motions at someone and I picked up my glasses and put them on to see what was going on. It was a co-worker waving at me. Wow! The first time one of my co-workers had acknowledged my existence outside of work-time. So far out!

So I wave back. I�m sorry, but I was so excited to be noticed by a co-worker. This is when the trouble began. So much trouble.

So my co-worker had left the restaurant, and I�m sitting there with my Mark Twain, minding my own business and my glasses are back off, laying on the table, when I notice ANOTHER blur waving in my not-so-good peripheral vision. So I grab my glasses, hoping it�s another co-worker, or maybe a student who maybe lives off-campus who wants to chat while eating the so spicy chicken that this place serves, but no. I�m so disappointed. It�s some stranger.

He�s jumping up and down pointing at the button on the table. So what does it mean? He means that if I want to attract the attention of the waitress, I should so not wave my hands in the air, but I should push the button. I don�t want a waitress. I just want to appear friendly to a co-worker. So I say, �Chingu, chingu!!� and wave frantically. He is not with the program.

So he stands up and calls the waitress and points at me. So she comes over to my table, but I don�t want anything. I just wanted to say �hi� to a co-worker. So she is confused when I wave her off. So she (the waitress) leaves and I start to relax.

So he is pissed because I don�t want anything. No. SO, no. The helpful-but-sitting-across-the-room-from-me-fellow-eater-who-only-wants-to-help-the-stupid-foreigner-and-so-does-not-realize-that-no-help-is-needed-by-the-stupid-foreigner is so not satisfied with the outcome. He comes over to my table.

Oh, shit. What does this so drunk dude want? He proceeds to explain that he wants the waitress to help me. So I proceed to tell him that I didn�t want anything. I just wanted to wave at my co-worker. This so much does not sit well with him. He so wants the waitress to help me, even though I don�t want help. I so don�t want a tissue. I really so don�t want more pickled moo. I don�t want a different fork. I don�t want anything. He so doesn�t understand. He so wants me to enjoy my time in Korea. We just so don�t agree.

So I guess he had had too much soju to drink. At some point in the exchange he took a swing. I dodged and took a swing at him. This was so not the thing to do. So we ended up rolling on the floor and some other ajosshis joined in. There were 4 or 5 of them. I don�t know if they were trying to help him beat the crap out of a foreigner or trying to help the woebegone foreigner escape from the soju-soaked ajosshi. So the outcome was that I slipped out while they were all pummeling each other.

So, what�s your assessment of people who start every sentence with so? Isn�t it so�..so boring and so, so junior high? Don�t you so want to reach out and slap them up side the head and say, �So get with the program!�

[Cerebroden]

more like you so grew up in so cal and have bleached blonde hair.

[princess]

The guy sounds like a loser, dumbass drunk. Didn't he see your coworker waving at you?

[Darkness]

BAR BRAWL!!!!!!





That's awesome!

[Hanson]

So good yarn!

So hub of Asia!

[DaeguKid]

That was so...so....ah forget it, YATA BOY! GOOD ONYA!
DK

[rothkowitz]

To begin with the next full moon is in a couple of weeks.......like Lunar New Year

[Qinella]

At least the drunk guy had an excuse for not being with the program.

chingu?

fork?

[Ya-ta Boy]

[I-am-me]

Even better if you got out of there without paying the bill!!!!!

[Milwaukiedave]

Wow..Ya-Ta Boy your pretty nimble with the duck and weave. Have you ever boxed? I would have figured you the least likely of those on Dave's to end up in a fight. Granted the other guy swung first, so I understand your reaction to swing back.

Nice exit though...I wouldn't go back to that place if I were you.

[ChopChaeJoe]

Pretty heavy story man.

That's really sad.

[Ya-ta Boy]

[eamo]

Did you get hurt at all?

It's usually better to walk away from a drunken ajeossi but if you are trying to enjoy a meal in a restaurant and they bother you then, let them have it!!

[Sash]

The closest place to eat too!

Good story though!