TRUE ASIANS REPRESENT

Ray and Trevor decided to visit Waterloo yesterday (Wednesday), just to see what the squalor that an university student exists with. They seemed pretty impressed with our living conditions… but that’s not the point. We were able to give Chinese people great reputations at not only one, but TWO businesses yesterday! Here they are:

1) We decided to visit Long & McQuade for picking up strings and for kicks and giggles. After arriving, we proceeded to touch pretty much every single instrument possible in the store, including the electric guitars, the acoustic guitars, the classical guitars, the pianos, the trumpets (not sure about that one), the books… you name it, we diddled with it in some way. Mind you, we were the only ones in the store so the salespeople just looked on awkwardly and asked whether we had any questions. At the end, we finally decided to leave for dinner. “Oh, we don’t have that brand of strings right now”, the salesman said when I asked for the pack of strings I was planning to get. Not wanting to be rude, I decided to buy a pick as a goodwill gesture for taking up their time. The cashier rung up the pick, which turned out to be 38 cents. Dickery dock, I only had 31 cents… so the salesman was all like “don’t worry about it”, but Simon paid the missing 7 cents right at the last moment before the cashier closed. We sure got the hell out of there then, and can only imagine what the salespeople were thinking. “Cheap Chinese people, wasting our time like that!” Yep, we definitely maintained the sterling Chinese image!

2) After the L&M debacle, we decided to go for dinner. Some debate ensued, and we decided to go to the “Rude Native”, a place that some MCBC people and I were supposed to go to but never did. And… thank goodness we didn’t go that time. After entering the restaurant and getting seated, there was a huge painting of a naked male body with handcuffs on. I don’t know about you, but I don’t think S&M when I eat. That was the first warning sign. We got to take a look at the menus, and the cheapest main course was $12.95. Our asian senses went off then, and we started brainstorming ways to sneak out with the smallest impact on our wallets as possible. After some thinking, we finally decided to order two buckets of mussels at $10.95, costing each one of us a beautiful total plus tips of about $6.50! And it was technically a legit meal too, because we might have been getting ready for a wild kegger or something. YEH YEH. In the end, we escaped unscathed minus both the restaurant’s and our egos. And… that’s another food place that we’ll be getting dirty looks from in the future :S