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[Cheonmunka]

So, I went to the store the other day to get a lighter. He, the shop owner, handed me a red one.... ew. How to say, 'purple..?'
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I leaned over and got a purple one and held it out.
"이개 무슨 샊갈 이예요?" "What color is this?"
"그걸 몰라요." I don't know."
I thought he was dishing me off.

'What does he mean he doesn't know. It's just a color....'

In disbelief and slight grievance had to probe some more.
"이개 색깔이 한국으로 어떻게 되는지 궁금해서.." "Just wondering what this color is in Korean ..."

"Well, I don't know," he says with a confused expression and hand on his mouth. "It could be magenta, or indigo, or violet ... I don't know which."

Go easy on these gentle folks, good people. Sometimes need for apologies and laughter will appear.

[laogaiguk]

That racist SOB. Obviously, he just didn't want a foreigner to use that colour of lighter.

[gang ah jee]

It's cause he was a dude. Dudes don't usually know much about chick colours. He probably thought you were probing him with active gaydar.

[billybrobby]

The other day I walked into a new kimbap store that just opened up and the lady gives me the two-finger X signal and says "영어 안 돼요"

And I wasn't not suprised by the fact that she would refuse service just because of a language barrier, or that she wouldn't see the irony in saying 영어 안 돼요 in Korean, because I've been confronted with those kinds of situations before.

And I hate the two-finger X signal.

So I say real rudely, "아, 영어 안 돼요? 한국어 될까요?" like I'm really gonna stick it to her with my super Korean skills.

She gives me a funny look. I glower back.

She says again, more slowly "영업 안 돼요". The store has not started operating yet.

I slink off.

[gang ah jee]

[seoulsucker]