August 13, 2004

You are on the invidual archive page of Take away. Click Simon World weblog for the main page.
Take away

Some of the people at work have ordered in dim sum for lunch today. Delivery will be by a surly woman pushing a trolley, shouting out in Cantonese the delights withing while studiously ignoring all the gweilos, assuming they wouldn't be interested in the contents. When finally cornered and asked what the food actually is, she will grunt a response and slam a plate down on the table. She will then reach over and neatly stamp the card with a Hellow Kitty imprint before turning away and muttering under her breath. Requests for more tea will go ignored as the small amount of water remaining in the pot turns to a cold, dark mud. Others will thoughtfully turn up to maximum volume the background noise and clatter of crockery, making normal conversation all but impossible.

She will then recircle the office and repeat.

posted by Simon on 08.13.04 at 01:51 PM in the




Trackbacks:

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://blog.mu.nu/cgi/trackback.cgi/40882


Send a manual trackback ping to this post.


Comments:




Post a Comment:

Name:


Email Address:


URL:


Comments:


Remember your info?










Disclaimer