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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
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 Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 3:40 am Post subject: Ajumma tried to steal my bag today |
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I was riding the Green Line today, and was seated. I had a clear plastic bag with some rice cakes inside for some Korean friends. I put the bag down between my feet, because I didn't want to drop it out of my hands while I was nodding off. My heels were touching the metal plate below my seat, so it's not like I was hanging out into the aisle.
As we stopped at Jamsil station, this ajumma flies by me and grabs the bag off of the floor (from between my feet) in one swooping motion as she was headed out the door!
Not so fast!
I've got pretty quick reflexes, and grabbed her hand, and the bag as she was turning to run toward the door. This caused her to spin around like a top. It happened so fast, I spoke in English, saying, "Hey! That's mine!" She looked at me in shock, and several people began looking at us. She responded, "Ande?" She then ran out the door and disappeared.
The ajumma seated across from me were shaking their heads in disgust and laughing about it.
I've been in Seoul for years now, and had stuff stolen, but NEVER has anyone dared attempt to steal anything I had with me.
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Ilsanman
Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Location: Bucheon, Korea
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| Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 3:43 am Post subject: |
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Did she look like a beggar?
Sure acted like one. |
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bassexpander
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| Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 3:44 am Post subject: |
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No, she looked like a typical 60-something woman (probably a halmony). I had an extra one. If I hadn't been so shocked, and she hadn't run off, I probably would have given her one.
Rice cakes aren't exactly something I'd get too upset about losing.  |
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spliff
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Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand
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| Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 3:45 am Post subject: |
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| Maybe she was just an Ajumma in love w/ your rice-cakes. |
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dimitri31
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| Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 3:46 am Post subject: |
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Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 3:40 am Post subject: Ajumma tried to steal my bag today
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I was riding the Green Line today, and was seated. I had a clear plastic bag with some rice cakes inside for some Korean friends. I put the bag down between my feet, because I didn't want to drop it out of my hands while I was nodding off. My heels were touching the metal plate below my seat, so it's not like I was hanging out into the aisle.
As we stopped at Jamsil station, this ajumma flies by me and grabs the bag off of the floor (from between my feet) in one swooping motion as she was headed out the door!
Not so fast!
I've got pretty quick reflexes, and grabbed her hand, and the bag as she was turning to run toward the door. This caused her to spin around like a top. It happened so fast, I spoke in English, saying, "Hey! That's mine!" She looked at me in shock, and several people began looking at us. She responded, "Ande?" She then ran out the door and disappeared.
The ajumma seated across from me were shaking their heads in disgust and laughing about it.
I've been in Seoul for years now, and had stuff stolen, but NEVER has anyone dared attempt to steal anything I had with me.
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this story is too funny.....i love to see when people shock the hell out of me! |
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 3:47 am Post subject: |
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| I don't know, but if she wanted them that bad, I would have given her one. I usually am the one giving stuff to beggars. When you've got a bag of something, and someone tries to steal it, your first instinct is to protect it -- not share it. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 3:49 am Post subject: |
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another Psycho in Seoul
down here in rural Gyeongsangnamdo it is well known by the locals that you cannot trust people in Seoul: they are untrustworthy in every sense (over five years of adult students and korean friends have told me that). |
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 3:52 am Post subject: |
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| VanIslander wrote: |
another Psycho in Seoul
down here in rural Gyeongsangnamdo it is well known by the locals that you cannot trust people in Seoul: they are untrustworthy in every sense (over five years of adult students and korean friends have told me that). |
Oh, that's funny. But most Seoul people come from outside of Seoul. I think they come here and lose their sense of right/wrong. This can be said of foreigners, too, I suppose.
I'm always hearing about how you can't trust people from Jeoalla-do. A guy came from Jeaolla-do to look at buying my motorcycle once. My co-workers were all worried about it. The guy offered to pay me half now, and half later, and my friend interpreting made some remark about people from Jeoalla, as well.
Other than that, everyone from Jeoalla that I've met has seemed pretty nice. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| bassexpander wrote: |
| I'm always hearing about how you can't trust people from Jeoalla-do. |
You do realize that the two Jeolla provinces (Jeollabukdo and Jeollanamdo) have been *beep* in most areas of national development. Travel and you will see how poor they are compared to the two Gyeongsang provinces of the old Shilla area here in the southeast. The mountains that divide the two areas is also a psychic divide: people here say they are actually scared to travel to the Jeolla area, where protests against the national government have been numerous throughout history. They have been shafted and they know it. That part of the country suffers benign neglect, making for nice pictures of decrepit buildings and 30-year-old shopping areas. In contrast, the southeast is quite different: the beacon of development, from Changwon to Geoje to Hadong to Ulsan.
The distrust of Seoulites by the southernmost is something else entirely, more about rural-urban differences, and the ambitious, much more modern, Christian elements of Seoul... that city is like another country in many ways |
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mindmetoo
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Bizarre. You would think a fear of foreigners would keep her away from your food. Like don't Koreans think we inject everything with AIDS?
Maybe she just thought you were here to rape Korea of all its wealth (as all foreigners have done) and she's just trying to get a little back.
Hypothesis: probably every Korean in that car who witnessed this were dying of shame. |
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crazy_arcade
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Bizarre. You would think a fear of foreigners would keep her away from your food. Like don't Koreans think we inject everything with AIDS?
Maybe she just thought you were here to rape Korea of all its wealth (as all foreigners have done) and she's just trying to get a little back.
Hypothesis: probably every Korean in that car who witnessed this were dying of shame. |
note: your avatar is freaky~! Sorry to say it, stalker-like freakiness. |
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Beeyee
Joined: 29 May 2007
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| Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 4:16 am Post subject: |
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| She's older than you so she obviously has the right to take your property. |
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agoodmouse
Joined: 20 Dec 2007
Location: Anyang
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| Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 5:11 am Post subject: |
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I'm sincerely sorry to hear this happened to you. I'm glad you got your bag back.
An ajumma like yours today is like a half-retarded, half-klepto cousin. What can we do? |
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ryouga013
Joined: 14 Sep 2007
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I'm sincerely sorry to hear this happened to you. I'm glad you got your bag back.
An ajumma like yours today is like a half-retarded, half-klepto cousin. What can we do? |
lock them away in the closet? |
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skconqueror
Joined: 31 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 6:15 am Post subject: |
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| crazy_arcade wrote: |
| mindmetoo wrote: |
Bizarre. You would think a fear of foreigners would keep her away from your food. Like don't Koreans think we inject everything with AIDS?
Maybe she just thought you were here to rape Korea of all its wealth (as all foreigners have done) and she's just trying to get a little back.
Hypothesis: probably every Korean in that car who witnessed this were dying of shame. |
note: your avatar is freaky~! Sorry to say it, stalker-like freakiness. |
Ya, is he one of your friends? |
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