2011年5月11日：一个外国人的中国生活趣事

The things happened on a foreigner on his live in China

I was walking with my foreigner English teacher Jason on the way to home after my English class. It`s sheer coincidence that our home was very near. Need no to said, we are always on the same way.

The way to my home is long and bored. On the way, we became chitchatting.

Jason said first. He told me a story on him.

“Last time, I went to the shop for photo processing. But as I was about to give the photos to that guy. A woman suddenly came. She went in from of me,”

Jason show how the women get in from of him. She jumped a queue.

“She was very rude. And she dropped the USB flash disk on the table said: ‘Help me processes these photos.’”

“I said to her in Chinese: ‘Hey! I`m in from of you!’ But she didn`t care and began speaking with that gay. I walk out away that shop, angrily. ”

No one speak again. Now we were passing a market nearby. I suddenly thought something that I asked：“Are you go to the market to buy things for always?”

“Sure.”

“Then, is someone you buy things from, always make up the prize because he or she see you`re a foreigner?”

“Yeah, sometimes they will do that. They saw I`m a foreigner and they try to give high prize to me. Or they give me some bad things and try to give me less thing when I bought foods. ”

I remember a writing thing. The writer is a foreigner who stays in China.

He usually goes to a shop for fruits. The owner of the fruit shop saw he`s a foreigner and always make high prize and refuse giving the correct weight until——he found that the foreigner is his daughter`s English teacher.

And——from now on——the owner of the shop always gives the cheep prize to the foreigner and always put some fruits to the foreigner`s bag after he bought the fruit.

“I can teach you something about how can make those guys give you correct prize and correct weight of food! You can shout at them just like my mom does: ‘Give me the right prize! I`m not a fool. ’ You should say it in Chinese.”

“Well, what I did is that I stay behind my girl friend when we were shopping. So those guys can`t see me! You should see the face of those guys when they saw me!”

“Ha ha ha!” We both laughed.

中文

昨天上英语课后回家的路上，我遇上了英语老师Jason，于是便一起结伴而行。也许是冥冥天意吧，反正Jason的家离我家很近。不用说，我们两人便走在了一条路上了。

不过，回家的路挺长的。于是我跟Jason边走边聊，否则，说真的，我会很寂寞的。

Jason给我讲了一件在他身上发生的事——

 “上次我去晒相店里冲照片。就在我准备要把要冲的照片给店主的时候，一个女的突然不知道从什么地方窜了出来。更过分的是她一下子插到了我的前面。”

Jason比划着，那个女的是如何一下子跑到他的前面的。

“那女的很粗鲁。然后她把她的U盘一下子摔在了工作桌上，大叫道‘喂！帮我把这些相冲好！’”

“见到这样，我对她说：‘请注意先后，我在你前面的！’而且我是用中文说的。可惜她根本不理我。最后我愤怒地走出了冲印馆。”

一片沉默。最后还是我打破了僵局：“你通常去市场买菜吗？”此时，我们正路过一个市场。

“当然啦！”

“那么，有没有店主见到你是个外国人，所以故意抬高价？”

“有啊！他们看到我不是中国人，便绞尽脑汁地抬高价、给劣等品呢！有时他们还给假秤。

听着Jason的话，我突然想起了看过的一篇文章。作者同样也是一个居住在中国的外国人。

他喜欢在同一个店买水果。但店主由于他是个外国人所以总是给高价、假秤。直到一天，店主发现那个外国人竟然是他女儿的外教老师！

从此，一切都变了。店主人见到那个外国人的时候，总是降价并且临走前还硬往他手里塞几个水果。

“对了！”我说，“我可以支你几个如何对付那些混蛋的招。你可以像我妈妈一样朝他们大吼：‘给准点价！我不是那么好骗的！’不过要注意的是，你要用中文说。”

“我所做的就是当我们去买东西的时候，我总是走在我的女朋友后面，” Jason说，“那些家伙就看不见我了。你应该看看当他们看到我时候的表情！”

“哈哈哈！”我们大笑起来。