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cubanlord · Joined: 08 Jul 2005 Location: In Japan!

Alright, so I was on my way to my part-time gig. I was waiting by the bus terminal when all of the sudden I was ambushed by 7 adjummas. We were all waiting at the bus stop. It was funny. They all kept their eyes fixated down the road where the bus would be coming from. Upon seeing it, they began to scurry about like ants, each trying to guess where the bus would stop so that she could be the first on. It was funny as hell. The bus was a mile away and these 7 ladies kept trying to get in front of each other to the point that they were now in the road, about a quarter of the way into the lane. The bus had to take up both lanes just to not run them over. The funniest thing was that the bus stopped in front of me, a good 2 meters away from the adjummas. I get on the bus and all you see is a crowd of old ladies pushing and shoving their way to the door.

It's fun to take a step back and look at things from a comical perspective. I would love to know why they feel it imperative to push and shove each other and those around them while getting on the bus...besides the obvious fact of getting a seat. Perhaps that's the only reason?

I'd love to hear your adjumma shuffle encounter!

Laughing

seoulsucker · Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 4:00 pm Post subject: Re: The Adjumma Shuffle

crisdean · Joined: 04 Feb 2010 Location: Seoul Special City

cdninkorea · Joined: 27 Jan 2006 Location: Seoul

One time I was with my girlfriend when she was carrying a pink shopping bag, and it reminded me of those pink cloth wrapped boxes you see a lot of ajummas carrying. As the subway pulled up, I took the bag from her, threw it at a few empty seats, and rushed for them, ajumma-style.

She was very, very embarassed, but everyone else thought it was funny, especially an old guy sitting across of us who had a pretty good laugh.

Steelrails · Joined: 12 Mar 2009 Location: Earth, Solar System

Adjumma shuffle got nothing on the Curly shuffle.

BoholDiver · Joined: 03 Oct 2009 Location: Canada

The fact is, ajummas run this country. No wonder all they do here is put their head down and run into brick walls.

In K families, traditionally, the women control the finances.

Globutron · Joined: 13 Feb 2010 Location: England/Anyang

I thought the curly hair fashion for old people was an English thing, I was quite pleased to see it had flowed over to here (or vice versa), but it's so colonising.