This is the kind of a scene which really describes China. A crowded
train station at 3 in the afternoon with about 10,000 people looking
to crowd into a 3:30 train in 15 minutes and all dressed like they
left their mirrors in 1456. Color coordination means nothing in China
as you have guys happily dressed like every color of the rainbow with
their blue shirts, purple pants and black jackets which is fine if
they are ben remotely clean because it is not uncommon to have a
business meeting with a dude wearing a brown polo with more stains on
it than my toilet will have when I am done destroying it tonight
but even if that isn't the worst of it, just look at the dude in the
middle with his fat finger shoved so far up his nose that you'd think
he's performing brain surgery. We all pick our noses and in a place
like China where they count the pollution in parts per thousand as
opposed to parts per billion, you need to clear your sinuses up fairly
often as those nose hairs pick up cotton sized pollution regularly,
but as a Westerner you have to be somewhat discreet. These slobs
don't give a crap and will pick their nose or their teeth as they are
having lunch with you and fling whatever they find across the table.
You just hope it doesn't get hidden in the noodles as that is the only
thing on the LazySusan you are even interested in eating.
And you just know this slob will come and shake your hand, wiping his
nose gunk all over your hand.
That is the visible uncleanliness.
ReplyDeleteImagine the privates and the unspeakably unsanitary condition that everyone's nads are in.
And yet there are like 1.2 billion Chinese and relatively little AIDS or STDs there compared to Africa or the good ol' USA.
Shows you that if you are straight and not a heroin junkie, you won't get a sex disease. China cracks down on gays and junkies.