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wet shirt contest
Rain.
This morning while I was waiting for #64, I got very wet. A shivering forty-minute busride later, I felt that my clothes had almost dried up again, and I was very happy about that. At least my shirt wasn’t see-through anymore.
I entered my workplace and worked.
At 12 when it was time for lunch, it was raining cats and dogs outside. I stepped out the door and got absolutely soaked immediately. As I was dodging my way through myriads of umbrellas to get to the foodplace, I could feel water running down my forehead, and I knew that my shirt was going to be transparent again. One time I felt a sharp pain in the back of my head. Someone had got me with his umbrella without even noticing it.
“Need one?” a dude in the middle of the road asked me, handing me an umbrella out of a basket. He was using one for himself as well, staying dry and demonstrating the purpose of the product at the same time.
“Men don’t use umbrellas.” I told him.
He looked at me surprised.
When I was back from lunch, my friend Minye scolded me: “Are you really this stupid??” she wanted to know.
I said yes.
When I got home from work and it was already dark, I had gotten soaked again. The same raindrops, the same transparent shirt, the same shivering, the same manliness. I was starting to get bored with it.
“Oh, it’s you, the man who doesn’t use an umbrella!” The shopkeeper laughed when I came into her store, looking for muffins while leaving little puddles of water everywhere I went.
“Men don’t use umbrellas!” I told her, but she just shook her head and laughed: “You have said so before! And I still don’t think it makes any sense!”
“Why not?”
“Because you’re gonna get a cold tomorrow!”
“Men don’t get a cold!”
There was a pause, and then the shopkeeper spoke, slowly and carefully: “Listen, there are no iron people – everybody can get a cold.”
She was looking at me as though I really didn’t know.
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September 17th, 2009 at 20:17
you are really man that walk through desert alone.
i don't think the rain can make you cold . :)
September 17th, 2009 at 22:09
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September 17th, 2009 at 23:35
Your are the real man, great man,Have you see the mirage in desert?
welcome to walk to China again! o(∩_∩)o…
September 18th, 2009 at 06:42
hmmmm if men don't use umbrellas they should use raincoats
September 18th, 2009 at 07:35
Hey, kein Foto für die weiblichen Fans???
September 18th, 2009 at 11:04
you are cool. I'm here to find out what you got from your longest way. Looking for some pieces of freedom?
September 21st, 2009 at 06:54
ricksung: You might be wrong about this one my friend.
Steven: Are you suggesting it might be raining pigs?
Bonnie: No mirage, what exactly is a mirage?
Muriel: Or just use willpower!
Gisela: Zensiert. :)
Jocelyn: I am not sure actually.
September 21st, 2009 at 09:17
haha….
you are amazing, man!
October 6th, 2009 at 09:07
never used an umbrella before I came to China, never needed one European rain is not wet I could walk around and stay dry in most rain. But in china ever notice your shirt gets wet when its sunny not even raining and its like a bucket tipped over you when it is raining. Still this place is so much fun.
October 18th, 2009 at 10:55
mirage is sorta like illusions reflecting things from far far away…
i ran into your time capsule video somewhere and it led me here…after some reading i gotta say you're really inspiring in big ways. kudos to you!
October 22nd, 2009 at 02:57
Steven: Hehe
James: European rain is not wet? Interesting thought. Now, is that a good thing or a bad thing?
ZMH: Thanks a lot. This is the first time I heard the term "time capsule video" – I like it!
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:00
@Christoph October 22nd, 2009 at 12:57 am
oops, i must've been thinking about something else at the moment i typed the comment. i guess i meant to say time lapse video. but anyways.