Alceste
Vagabond
I live in a neighbourhood that is mostly populated by Asian people, so most of the shops are Chinese.
So I'm off to pick up some veggies for tonight's dinner when I pass a group of four or five people murdering an acoustic guitar and having some kind of off-pitch singalong, which was unintelligible to me on account of it being entirely in Chinese.
Nevertheless, I start fumbling in my pockets for change, since I am the sort who always tries to throw buskers a bone. They're not buskers though, I soon realize. As I pass them by, smiling and nodding and pretending to appreciate the godawful racket they're making (everyone needs such musical encouragement), a little Chinese dude emerges smiling from the crowd with a fistful of pamphlets.
"Are you a Christian?" he asks, in hopeful, heavily accented English.
"No, you won't believe this, but I'm actually a Taoist. lol."
I don't think he appreciated the irony, though. It's possible he didn't understand what I said at all. He just said "Give it a try!" and poked a leaflet into my hand.
tl;dr: I think I've just joined the BC Mutual Cultural Appropriation Society.
So I'm off to pick up some veggies for tonight's dinner when I pass a group of four or five people murdering an acoustic guitar and having some kind of off-pitch singalong, which was unintelligible to me on account of it being entirely in Chinese.
Nevertheless, I start fumbling in my pockets for change, since I am the sort who always tries to throw buskers a bone. They're not buskers though, I soon realize. As I pass them by, smiling and nodding and pretending to appreciate the godawful racket they're making (everyone needs such musical encouragement), a little Chinese dude emerges smiling from the crowd with a fistful of pamphlets.
"Are you a Christian?" he asks, in hopeful, heavily accented English.
"No, you won't believe this, but I'm actually a Taoist. lol."
I don't think he appreciated the irony, though. It's possible he didn't understand what I said at all. He just said "Give it a try!" and poked a leaflet into my hand.
tl;dr: I think I've just joined the BC Mutual Cultural Appropriation Society.