Dear netties on KIDS,
I have been reading for some exciting/interesting/funny comments or accounts
dor the past few days, but it seems everybody' become suddenly mute or
something..
Where are you witty and fun writers? Perhaps the start of a fresh school year
is causing peole to dig the books and hold themelves from KIDDING. But that
didn't seem to be a problem last semester...
Anyway, so here I am going to provide you with a funny experience I had over
the summer. Here goes:
I was staying with a relative in Seoul over the summer. About ten days after
I got back to Seoul, this funny thing happened to me. That morning, I was
about to go somewhere (can't remember) and as usual, I jaywalked the street
in order to catch the bus. I lived in a very remote area of Seoul, by the way.
I heard a loud whistle as I crossed the street, and suddenly I felt a hundred
eyes riveted on me. "what's wrong?" I thought in my mind. I finished
crossing.. and then I realized there was a cop walking towards me. Oh no!
There was an A-jumma sitting in front of her store. SHe whispers " hey, run
away or otherwise he will go after you! Don't you know there is a 5000- won
fine for jaywalking?" Run away from what? ANd besides I saw the cop walking
furiously towards me. So I faced him bravely.
He asked for my i.d. (something like social security card). Well, I didn't
have one, so I looked at him straigth in the face and told him I didn't have
one. He goes " what do you mean? everybody has one." I told him that I just
came from the U.S> and etc. He stared straigth in my eyes.. a few seconds
passed.. and he nodded and went away. What a relief.
But the punch line came right after. The a-jumma who watched ( and apparently
listened) the whole event exclaimed in a loud voice:
" A-gassi, Chung Mal Dae Dan Hae!!!"
She thought I told the cop a lie! I just rolled my eyes and stared at her. Oh
gosh, Korea and its a-jummas.
Anyways, after that event, I made sure to walk the extra 50 meters to cross
at the crosswalk..
Two months later, a crosswalk is made right at the very spot I was "caught".
And by the way, the fine for jaywalking is now 30000 won.
Hope you thought the story funny. I wish I could soemhow emulate the tone and
voice of the a-jumma on this screeen, but that is up to your imagination..
just think of a loud mouthed your typical neighboprhood nosey a-jumma ..