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billybrobby · Joined: 09 Dec 2004

So last night I went to get some fried chicken for take-out. In the chicken place there were these two adjosshi sitting there getting totally drunk. Naturally it was about 7:30 in the evening. So I'm sitting there waiting for the chicken this adjosshi starts yelling "hey! hey!" and I'm just trying to ignore him, hoping that he's not talking to me. But when I look over, he's sitting there all red-faced and glaring right at me.

He starts mumbling some stuff in Korean and I can't really make it out. So I say "Yeh?" And he says something like, "��ܸ� �ҷ�..." (call the ajumma). So I look over at the ajumma who's standing there like 5 feet away. And I look back at the wasted guy. And I say, "�� ܸ�?" (that ajumma?) and he nods his head. So I yell, "ajumma" and feel kinda dumb because she is right there. But I thought maybe she was kinda deaf or something. And the ajumma and the guy start talking and I can't understand the guy, but the ajumma says something like, "��̿��" (it's take-out). And the drunk guy mumbles "��...��" (i don't know...i don't know)

Then I realize that the guy was trying to help me. He thought that I was just sitting there waiting for her to help me. He didn't realize that I had already ordered.

The point of this little story is that I'm glad I learned a little Korean. The guy, in his own dumb way, was trying to help me, but he came across as angry because he was so wasted. If I didn't know any Korean I'd be thinking, "Oh, he hates foreigners. D@MM YOU PLAYBOY!!!"

eamo · Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.

Ajeossi's have to appear angry all the time. That's their job.

Chillin' Villain · Joined: 13 Mar 2003 Location: Goo Row

inthewild · Joined: 28 Mar 2004 Location: Korea

I wish my Korean was that good... ah back to boring studying grammar. Neutral

Anyways, Chillin' Villain the picture on the left of your cyworld page is funny.

Chillin' Villain · Joined: 13 Mar 2003 Location: Goo Row

billybrobby · Joined: 09 Dec 2004

Yeah, my Korean is pretty lame too. If you look at my post, understanding the situation required me to know a grand total of 6 words. I think most little situations in life can be solved with 6 words. But you need a good vocabulary to have the right 6 words for every occasion.

There was one time in a restaurant when I would've given an eye to know the word for soy sauce. I tried saying in Korean, "the bitter brown water which, when you eat sushi, is served with wasabi."

I was promptly served a plate of wasabi.

BTW it's ��. and wasabi with kimbap tastes terrible

Real Reality · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Location: Seoul

Police Book Man for Starting Fight over President's Eye Job
Busan Police booked on Friday a man, known only as Mr. Lee, for striking a female customer in a restaurant during an argument over President Roh Moo-hyun's "double eyelid" surgery. According to police, Lee was in a roast chicken restaurant in Yeonji-dong on Thursday afternoon when Ms. Shin, a customer who was reading a newspaper on her own at the next table, said that the president's cosmetic surgery made him look ridiculous. Taking offense, Lee said it wasn't the surgery that made him look that way, but the makeup he was wearing, igniting an argument that ended with Lee striking Shin in the face with his fist. Lee asked for forgiveness, claiming that in a state of drunkenness, he mindlessly struck the woman whom he thought was mocking the president.
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200502/200502250035.html

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