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rocklee · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul

I've been coming to one particular library nearly every day because they offer free internet for my notebook as well as access to movies, computers and printers. Sweet deal.

Now there is this plump looking woman in her late 40s, even maybe 50s who visits the same library. She brings her notebook but doesn't use the network. I assume she's typing a thesis or something while everybody else hooks up to the internet. Only thing is, she doesn't want people to know what she's up to. Ever seen some hapless loser trying to cover his monitor because he's looking at porn? Something like that.

Anyway, whenever someone makes even a squeak of their seat or a click of a mouse, this woman would stop in her tracks, put on her shoes and come right up at you to be quiet. Talk about the noise police. She does everything from staring down at a girl for playing with her hair to picking on children for playing on computers. This happens every couple of minutes for hours on ends. WTF. And what the hell does she plan to do with that water spray that she carries?
She appears territorial, a fact I noticed every time she sees me and my 'puter. This crazie pisses off everybody with her antics but all they do is suck air through teeth and deal with what they call the "ajumma effect". I am just about to tell her to phuck off in English the moment she decides to creep up on me again.

She is not by far the craziest I've seen, but she's damn close to being the crankiest old biyatch I've seen.

Homer · Guest

At the library I saw some foreign teacher staring at this plump lady all day long.

He was muttering to himself and then he would furiously type something at the computer while rocking back and forth.

That was an interesting experience to say the least.... Laughing

It takes all kinds to make a world.

Novernae · Joined: 02 Mar 2005

I met a history major who didn't believe in the concept of mutually assured destruction in the cold war. He was kind of crazy.

animalbirdfish · Joined: 04 Feb 2004

I once read a thread entitled "Freakiest Waygook Contest."

ajuma · Joined: 18 Feb 2003 Location: Anywere but Seoul!!

Yeah, OP....you talkin' crazy foreigners or crazy Koreans? I've met a LOT more of the former than the later!!

pegpig · Joined: 10 May 2005

It sure doesn't take long. Someone posts something interesting, but wait, it's something negative about a Korean. Oh, no! Let's all point out that foreigners are weird/strange/crazy too. Arrgh!!!

I'm in Canada. There are weird Asians here too. And, guess what? There are weird Canadians, Americans, Chinese, and Japanese too.

I'm guessing there are more weird Koreans than foreigners in Korea.

Guess what? There are probably more weird Canadians than foreigners in Canada.

Wow! So, why is it so horrid that someone posts about some strange person? Because she's Korean?

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

Way back when, I was the last to leave the hakwon after morning classes. Had just shut the classroom door and was headed for the elevator. A youngish guy, maybe 30, popped out of the elevator and immediately started in. "Where are you from?...Thanks be to heaven (or some such) that you're a 미국 사람. I need to talk to you."

He went into a long schpeil (sp??) about how the Korean CIA was after him and he wanted me to contact the US CIA to come rescue him. It had to do with him having/knowing something about nuke blueprints. He'd been to the University of Tennessee but the Korean CIA had sent an agent to kill him and he'd escaped back to Korea.

This went on for as long as it took me to edge my way into the elevator, keeping an eye out for anything I could use for a weapon in case he came at me. I did give him a phony telephone number to call me after I'd contacted the CIA.

Also had a highly entertaining listen to a woman talking to her invisible friend while eating at the downtown Auckland McD's. That was cheap fun. This was the morning after I'd had a disturbing conversation with a Brit walking down the main drag. I split off into an alley right after he pulled out his ******* and took a whiz while we were walking and he was talking, spraying the sidewalk ahead of us.

It's experiences like this that have led me to live only on the internet, huddled under a blanket in my triple-locked apartment.

Muffin · Joined: 01 Mar 2006 Location: Turkey

Yes. I was on the subway last Saturday when a girl/young woman (very early 20s) came into my carriage from the adjoining one, busy with a form and a big diary. She sat in the seat to the right of me (of course) and continued sorting papers and looking at her diary which I noticed was 2005. I then noticed she was looking into space and silently talking to herself.

The person to the my left got out at the next stop so I admit I moved along, leaving a space between myself and the 'crazy' which some unsuspecting guy filled. He also began to look disconcerted as she started laughing silently to herself, clapping her hands over her face, rocking and staring up at the ceiling. She then got out her mobile phone with a great flourish and peered at it before getting off the train.

She looked normal apart from the heels on her shoes wearing down to shreds.

I kept wondering what she was doing wandering the tube alone, playing out her fantasy with her diary. Why had someone so young 'lost it' so badly? Who looks after her?

Of course it is possible she was not truly crazy in the normal sense. She could have had some complex communication disorder on the autistic spectrum. It's not for me to diagnose. It made me think though. If some old drunk starts acting like that it is sort of amusing, but I found her really disturbing.

rocklee · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul

lastat06513 · Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 8:25 pm Post subject:

I'm kinda' shocked no one talked about meeting me....I have been told on more than one occasion that I was the strangest person they have ever met....that and the most helpful Wink

pegpig · Joined: 10 May 2005

Zulu · Joined: 28 Apr 2006

I saw a young foreign dude in the subway who was stoned out of his gourd and was muttering to himself (well, I guess he was only temporarily crazy).

Oh, and there's this twenty-something married Korean woman near my place who goes way loco on her husband every couple of days - I mean cat howls, frothing at the mouth (no joke) and throwing stuff around in her place for hours on end. When there's no 'full moon' she looks like your typical quiet and polite little 'princess'. I pity the husband - it's damn spooky.

Smurfette · Joined: 21 Jun 2006

The other day I met a man at the bus stop who found his calling in life.....to greet and send off all bus passengers at that one bus stop.....it was refreshing......now that was somethin he should be getting money for but he was doing it out of the kindness of his heart......

Zulu · Joined: 28 Apr 2006

captain kirk · Joined: 29 Jan 2003

One time (at band camp) I was on the train, noonish, Cheonan to Seoul on a Saturday (subway). Three bucks and three hours or something. Well there was a Korean guy who was at the end of one car, fifteen feet from me, speaking loudly in perfect, cultured English and making a lot of sense in a flipped out professor way.

Like, 'I come from a family of three brothers, raised in New York..(bla bla, making sense, very interesting....) -pause- 'The universe is made of spirals, dna spirals, big bang, atomic fusion (bla bla, making impressive sense in a visionary nutso way...interesting).

And so on. The Koreans didn't know what to make of it since they probably didn't understand him. I thought he was cool but I wouldn't go up to him and chat because he was a festering nut. But having a blast. When he got off the train he bowed to everyone, and laughed, and skipped off....