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simone · Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Location: Now Mostly @ Home

There's been a little battle raging at my fitness center as of late.

There's a room off the changing room, with comfy mats on the floor, and big blanket-size towels. Typically, at any point in time 3-4 people might be napping on one of the 10 or so mats.

Being pregnant, I enjoy going in there on my lunch break to catch 20 winks. It's been a real lifesaver when I thought I'd pass out with my head on my keyboard. Ah, hell, I enjoy a good nap there any time of year. I always wear an eye mask and earplugs (which don't work so well) to make the most of my nap.

But lately, there's been this ajumah who thinks the room is an extension of her own house. She goes in there, and proceeds to take phone call after phone call, with her phone on full loud ringing. A few times I've gone over to her to ask her to be quiet or go outside, and she's actually hung up her phone and closed her eyes before I over there! Oh, sure, you see me coming, so you play dead! Who are you fooling!?! I'd confronted her 2 or 3 times by this point.

So late last week, I was lying there, just waiting for her to do her usual thing - and it hit me: Her ring tone is "Don't cry for me Argentina", so when her phone rang and she proceeded to start yakking, I sat up and sang to her from across the room:

(to the tune of "Don't Cry for Me Argentina")(with accompanying gestures)
Please don't talk on your handphone!
This is a room, that's meant for sleeping.
But not for talking, just for sleeping.
So please go OUTSIDE! (and be considerate).

The other people in the nap room (who were also awakened by her but are better at putting up with it) all smiled at me.

She got it, scurried out... and I haven't seen her since. Maybe she picked a new sauna time that doesn't overlap with my lunchtime. It's too bad, because I was actually looking forward to humming "don't cry for me Argentina" every time I saw her again, just to drive the point home. I'd LOVE now if she came back and pulled it again... whereas before I'd seethe so much that it interfered with my napping.

Anyone else have creative ways of dealing with rudeness that makes you almost WANT people to be rude to you? (Without actually getting violent or creating such a scene that it gets written up here with the title of "Now I know why Koreans hate foreigners".)

jajdude · Joined: 18 Jan 2003

Brilliant.

Dev · Joined: 18 Apr 2006

An inconsiderate ajumma? You've got to be kidding! Laughing

jinju · Joined: 22 Jan 2006

Im shocked you didnt fit the line "Im in upper management" somewhere in there

kermo

jaganath69 · Joined: 17 Jul 2003

simone · Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Location: Now Mostly @ Home

JAWINSEOUL · Joined: 19 Nov 2005

I like spreading my legs on the subway and telling everyone "I'm an Adjoshi". This is ofrcourse after getting fedup by them.

simone · Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Location: Now Mostly @ Home

Ah, after a bit of reading up, I'm darn crushed I didn't have the chance with Jinju... He wrote this just last weekend, too.

kermo · Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2007 11:54 pm Post subject:

jinju · Joined: 22 Jan 2006

sheeeeesh obviously someone doesnt know a joke when she sees it.

butlerian · Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Location: Korea

lol, it's funny how Kermo has managed to completely alter the slant of this thread and make it much more sexy Very Happy

Bondrock · Joined: 08 Oct 2006 Location: ^_^

... i need a net stalker

if someone doesn't start stalking me and reposting my ramblings, maybe i will have to turn the tables on them....

watch out "them"

whomsoever them is

man i gotta start drinking again....

Hollywoodaction · Joined: 02 Jul 2004

poet13 · Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 4:11 pm Post subject:

Can someone post a link where I can sign up or apply for my own stalker? I've been here two plus years now, and I think I'm over 1500 posts on four boards. (There has to be a minimum, right?)