July 22, 2009
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new york moments
maybe it's because i'm a newbie, but everything that happens to me in new york city amuses me. i figure it will start to annoy me soon, and then i'll start to ignore everything, so i'm trying to write down as much as i can. because as r says, "i don't make this stuff up!"
while getting on an elevator today, an exasperated man yelled, "there are other elevators!!!" he was going to the 18th floor and everyone else was not. "now i have to stop 5 times before i get to my floor?!" i looked at him straight in the face and said, "well, that is kind of the idea of an elevator." no response. score: mina 1, man 0.
after lunch, i got back on the elevator and a handle-bar mustachioed man asked me, "what floor?" i told him, and then he proceeded to ask me, "are you alone? are you a stewardess? where are you from? from japan? from china?" i told him, "i'm from brooklyn." score: mina 1, man 0.
on a very crowded F train today, a man signaled me to his seat and insisted i take it, even though i was fine with standing. his sincerity reminded me of the seated people on the cairene subway who would point to and signal the people that they wanted to take their seats after they got off the train. later, when the F train kicked everyone off the train (again), he found me and asked, "where are you from?" this time, i said, "new jersey." then i ran upstairs to take the A. score: mina 1, man 0.
so i guess my total score is 3 for today. not that this is a game or anything...or is it?
p.s. next time someone asks me where i'm from, i'm going to say, "my mother." i haven't had the guts to do it before, but now i think it'd be funny. what do you say?
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o! i just thought of another one. last week, i was walking to the UPS store in my neighborhood wearing my old chuck taylor's. mind you, these are the SAME converse sneakers i've had since i was in 9th grade. i have pictures and writing on them from my high school years. when they came back into fashion, it was natural just to wear them again. in fact, everyone and their mother seems to be wearing brand new chuck taylors these days. so while i was walking back (with iPod buds in ears) i noticed a man was mouthing something to me. he repeated the same thing again, and i heard him say, "old chuck taylors!" which i thought was weird because everyone wears them. anyway, i just ignored him, but what was that all about?!
Comments (4)
mina, you are awesome.
hi mina mina
i haven't been on xanga in almost a year, but i have to tell you that you have the best posts - i love reading them 
happy august 1st!
The man was diggin’ your old school Chuch Taylors! As with all thing re-newed, they never really make them like they used to: thereby keeping the old-school ones classics! Score Mina!
As for the multiple “where are you from” queries, what’s with that? Must be a new thing.
that's the stuff that happens to me in foreign countries like jordan and singapore. sometimes i just tell them that i'm from North Korea. well only because ppl ask me if i'm from North or South Korea.
speaking of old school, the next time someone asks you where you are from you should say "yo mama".
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