balaams_ass's feet
SU like so many other colleges and universities starts classes today. This means that students moved in starting last Tuesday and since I work for Student Computing I get to help out connecting the 7000 PC's to our residential network. I've been doing this a number of years (8 to be exact) but this year I ran into a new wrinkle. I present you balaams_ass's feet.
See anything unusual ? No, no ingrown toenails, no corns or blisters or toejam. Yeah that's it shopping bags. Seems I wandered briskly into a apartment where some South Koreans lived and I had to put bags on my feet. Being the politically sensitive and savvy guy that I am I complied and begged forgiveness for having taken 3 steps on to the carpet. Here's a link where you can read all about the customs of South Koreans.And since you asked. Yes I very discreetly snapped the photo while my host was off monitoring the activities of a small child who interestingly enough had just been outside, was barefoot and climbing all over the furniture. This realization made me feel very special as I figured it was my feet they were trying to protect, that is until I got up to leave. You see wearing plastic grocery bags on your feet and trying to walk isn't easy (think snowshoes on swivels walking on mud) I snagged my right big toe on the left foot bag and only a nimble hop skip and a whoa and my years on roller skates as a kid kept balaams_ass off his umm errr ahhh well you get the picture. It was like some perverse sack race gone horribly wrong. While I think lawsuits are part of what is messing up this country I admit while doing the grocery bag dance I wondered who I would sue?
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You'd sue the Korean, the kid, the landlord, the grocery store, the bag manufacturer, the plastics industry, the gun industry and John Ashcroft simultaneously. Duh.
Usually, in an asian home where they do not wear outdoor foot gear, they will often times have flipflops or slippers to wear inside...with spare ones in different sizes for guests (at least my folks do) *shrugs*
- Ron
BTW, I miss those long nights up in Day...especially since we could not work on the hardware install...it was like "so we can tell you how to do it but if you fry your card it's not our fault" LOL...aaah good times...
- Ron
I can't believe you fell for that!!
The Koreans do that all the time! It's a big joke to them. I bet they took a picture of YOU and posted it on some blog somewhere! Got another American!
If you put it on only one foot would that make you half in the bag?
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