So I’m sitting at gate 102 at SFO wasting timeuntil I get hungry enough to buy some food with my credit card since I converted all my cash to renmebi, $180 - whatever fee and the crappy 6:1 exchange rate (the actual exchange rate is 7:1). (Yeah airports are ripoffs, but I need the cash immediately in Beijing. Yi said, “anything over seven is good,” but the dollar is so weak, it’s trading at 6.9 so…) My plane is at the gate getting serviced or something. Right next to it another 747 pulled up that’s named the “Spirit of Seattle II.” Kind of makes you wonder what happened to the first “Spirit of Seattle.” Probably nothing, and United is just reusing names; as in the first one is currently boarding in LA or something. It’s more fun to think that first one crashed and this is its replacement.
UPDATE: 10:57 am China Standard – Somewhere over Kampuchea
When I was waiting to board, I ended up sitting next to these two American guys. A 59 year old photographer from San Diego and some mid-30s guy that is a computer parts distributed that outsourced his software to China.
The 59 year old guy was talking about his 29 year old girlfriend in Beijing and how he always goes to China and gets several girls because they’re hawt and easy. Then he commented about how this one asian girl looked at the airport. Don’t get me wrong, she was definitely pretty, and I noticed her before, but his comment creeped me out. Especially how the computer guy went along with the photographer’s stories about going to massage parlors and stuff. It was like that while they differed in degree, they were kindred spirits, and I didn’t want to be associated with either of them.
“Highlights” of the conversation included:
- Chinese girls don’t know how to open mouth kiss
- Chinese girls will suck your dick if you’re circumcised
Great. And somehow this guy was confused on why these girls didn’t want immediately marry him.
By sheer coincidence, the photographer is sitting behind me on the plane, telling the American woman sitting next to him about his 29 year old girlfriend, and how he’s had some transplant and is afraid to tell her, and basically thinks he’s going to die soon.
Not soon enough.