she loves the chinese.
published Monday, April 11, 2005 by j | email this post
creepy old lady: look at you! oh just look at you. you are so handsome. i just love the chinese.
me: um.
creepy old lady: i havva chinese eye doctor, chinese glasses, my pediatrist is chinese, i just love the chinese. such good people, your people, such good people. oh i just love the chinese.
me: well.
creepy old lady: i go down to chinatown all the time, because i love them so much. so simple, those chinese people. not complicated like me and her (points to white lady smoking a cigarette outside the theatre). love the chinese!
me: i'm not chinese.
pause.
creepy old lady: well what on earth are you then? i'm dying to know!
me: i'm half philippino and/
creepy old lady: PHILIPPINO! ohhhhh.. of course. i love your brothers and sisters too, i do! so many of them work down at the fish market! have you been to the fish market?
me: no.
creepy old lady: oh it's wonderful, the biggest fish market in the world, it is. you should go. oh i just love your people. your phillipino people.
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where did you find this woman?
i know that lady
So, if I eat lots of McD $meals and chase them with Apple Jacks, will I eventually look like you? You artsy guys are so funny. You had to have made this up. No one will believe things like this in the real world. Wait, I live in Boulder. You live in NYC. Nevermind.
Oh my God!! When did the filipinos take over Chinatown?? :)