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Sorry, but I do not understand that one. How many hands do you use to do that in other countries? I think I do the same here as in the USA. Hold bills in one hand, pull them out of that hand with the other hand as I count. So, I use 2 hands to pay at first, but then hand the money with one hand. Did the same in the USA. As for receiveing change one hand here and in the USA, except when I am in the small stores in Korea with older people that use the traditional Korean method of my putting money on the counter and they putting the change on the counter. But then, I still use 2 hands in the counting process, one hand to put it on the counter. I pick up the money with one hand, but I am sure that I use both to organise the money and put it in my billfold or pocket. Oh this is confusing. Please tell me how the system is different in other countries. I can not imagine using one hand to count money, and why do you need two hands to hand it over or receive. Or is this code talk for somthing else????
By the way, I LOVE BOSHINTANG Smile

)...... Tastes like dark meat turkey to me.

Seoultrader · Joined: 18 Jun 2003 Location: Ali's Insurgent Inn, Fallujah

Chase a shot of fine JW Blue Label with a glass of MILK

and

then having my designated room salon hostess kiss off the milk mustache with a squeaky "Oppaaa...nomo kee-op-da."

Laughing

All right, ya got me. The 2nd part is a wet dream.

makushi · Joined: 08 Jun 2003

Get annoyed when some uses English to speak to me

Regularly get into stare downs with pushy middle aged women

Let a drunk guy rub my leg

Feel happy and take it as honor when by drinking companions empty their soju cup and then offer it to me

Tell someone that I think their "kakdugi" is delicious

Slurp down a shared bowl of soup with five other people

Drink any type of hard alcohol that costs less than a $1 per bottle

Drink any type of hard alcohol that costs over $150 per bottle

Consider drinking work

Be able to convince my wife that drinking is work

Say "Iguu"

Make a hissing noise when I drink or don't believe what someone just said

Care more about the price of my haircut than what it looks like

Care more about the price of clothes than what they look like

Care more about the price of car than what it looks like

Think in terms of "pyong" to describe our house/apartment size

Use or understand anything metric

makushi · Joined: 08 Jun 2003

A couple more...

Hang out with anyone of the French persuasion...

Order food from, drink at, or eat at any place called "Donkey Fried Chicken"

crazylemongirl · Joined: 23 Mar 2003 Location: almost there...

Here's mine:

Trying on dresses, wearing/trying on make up for the fun of it. Korea is turning me into a girl.

Bowing when I exit a shop, but we all seem to do that.

Cooking meat on a bbq the meat isn't a huge slab of meat.

Not missing being without a car.

Getting drunk for less than $5.

Getting drunk for more than $40.

Eating meat less than 3 times a week.

Singing kiddy songs with my kindy kids and enjoying them

Teaching paper folding.

CLG

sillywilly · Joined: 20 Jan 2003 Location: Canada.

Have caught myself bowing to a peoplesicne I've been home. I don't say thanks anymore.. I just stare intently and nod my head. Im so rude...

RedRob · Joined: 07 Jul 2003 Location: Narnia

Share a pack of ciggies with a doctor, inside the hospital, watching friday nite smash-ups zing by while haggling for the release of my friend (no $ no leave!) Arrange time payment for surgery.

Get smashed on soju way before lunch, bosses treat!

Eat fermented fire cabbage for brekkie

Get told you are belly hansum regularly- trust me, that never happens at home!

Day dream about hitting old ladies.

Watch a dude spit on the floor of a (cheap) resturant and not think anything of it.

Admit to your co-workers that you were out drinking 'till 4 or 5 on a weeknite-and they congradulate you?

The Man known as The Man · Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2003 10:15 am Post subject:

Derrek · Joined: 15 Jan 2003

Another one for me: Riding a scooter.

just because · Joined: 01 Aug 2003 Location: Changwon - 4964

I wore a pink shirt the other day(don't ask why....) there is no way for all money i would do that at home. i was praying no other waygook would see me. Embarassed

sillywilly · Joined: 20 Jan 2003 Location: Canada.

I already replied to this post.. But when I saw the thread again, it made me think. There are so many things Ive done since Ive been home that I wouldn't be caught dead doing in Korea. Wink

masuro · Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2003 4:44 pm Post subject:

Squid · Joined: 25 Jul 2003 Location: Sunny Anyang

Funny thread, here's mine:

Use my dinner utensils (Chopsticks, fork, spoon, whatever) in a shared dish... still uncomfortable with it...

Wear a "Ralph Lauren" polo shirt.

Get married in a wedding hall.

Tap my foot to Kpop Razz

Accept a complete stranger has the right to wander around inside my house.

Drink in a Hof.

Cop an earful from a sad sack in a Hof/pub about his country being so brilliant... early mistake.

Cop an earful from anyone, anywhere about their country being so great.

Associate with a loudmouthed and bad-mannered American.

Consider myself normal.

I could go on

desultude · Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2003 11:56 pm Post subject:

Taking 2 million out of the bank.

jajdude · Joined: 18 Jan 2003

Ask about the Korean's age so you know how to interact.

Use any Korean and get complimented for the slightest show of ability, or laughed at....

Carry all my bags on a subway or bus making the move to a new place... did that again today.

Get an advance on pay before working even a week at a new place.

Hearing "Look, there's a foreigner" almost daily. Expect to hear comments relating to foreigner, American, or English language. Hearing bad English because you, the foreigner, are within earshot.

Drink in front of convenience stores... one of my favorite things.

Walk an extra ten or fifteeen minutes or more to find the newspaper I like (IHT).... gave up on "Herald" and "Times"