the times of kryptoniteglows

I suck with this writing stuff even with interesting stuff. Before I spend a month anywhere I haven’t been in the past 18 years, I should probably check it out a bit.  Things like no bath tubs are kinda of a downer for me and toilets or the lack there of in public places is also another negative.  There are bathrooms and they call them toilets, but you have to squat over them!  I’m big and clumsy, I could way to easily fall in!  Oh and my grandma’s house has this turtle in the bathroom, it’s sort of allowed to roam around free, but it never seems to leave the bathroom.  So since there is no bathtub, when I bathe (yea that’s right bathe, no showers, don’t even ask..) this turtle is there looking at me!  There is something unsettling about that… 

Apparently the Chinese aren’t photogenic people, I guess they don’t want people stealing ideas and what not. I went to a Chinese fast food place (that serves Chinese food), it’s called kung fu or something like that and has a likeness of Bruce Lee as the company’s logo.  Since we don’t have those in the US, I figured I take a picture of what they offered there so I could show people when I came home.  Well, apparently not, since one of their minions said no pictures. Fine, whatever… Nothing really special and since the menu is in Chinese, I can’t read the damn thing anyway.

I went to some gigantic mall place and was looking at luggage.  I actually saw a set that I liked except for the green color and the price was about right.  I figured I could deal with the green color, because it would actually make it easier to spot at the luggage carousels at the airport.  I had a hard time finding my black rolling bag because a lot of other bags looked like it, but my mom’s crazy colored bag was spotted no problems. Anyhow, it looked good and I was probably going to go back and buy it, figured I would take a picture so I could remember what the thing looked like and where the store was in the gigantic malls (or more like 3 separate malls…..).  However, the salesgirl was like no pictures.  Well, wtf, not like I’m going to steal the design of the bag, I could have had a hidden camera if I really wanted to steal shit.

Anyhow, the malls are indeed huge, I think I went to like 3 separate ones yesterday, they are in close proximity to each other, they have multiple floors, like 5 or more each!  There was a skating rink inside one of them!  Their sale signs are backwards, instead of saying 70% off, they say 30% sale (meaning you pay 30% of the regular price). And I know this is bad to say and probably wrong on so many levels, but I seriously feel like a black person in a store in America. The sales person are always following me around, I mean that is their job and all, but I prefer being to look at my leisure. Them following me around almost increases the pressure to buy something, just to be like yea I could buy your overpriced shit.  Though I didn’t spend a dime yesterday at the mall.

I mean I tried to, I have a discover card and before you say WTF were you thinking.  Discover is on the same network as the China’s UnionPay system, so it works just like UnionPay which is accepted around here like Visa/Mastercard is in the United States.  The bad thing is that I don’t have a UnionPay logo on my card since it’s a US card, it has the Discover logo and it apparently freaks out the cashiers.  I will admit the card does a look a bit shitty compared to other cards I have because, well it’s Discover card.  Anyhow, almost every time I’ve tried to use it, the cashiers seem to think it’s going to break register or something.

At Vanguards (a 4 or 5 floor supermarket that has everything, like a super walmart, but even bigger), they actually have the Discover logo right along side the UnionPay logo, so I figured it be a piece of cake to use it.  No, the girl refused to use it because she never seen it before, and even got her manager who was like um I don’t know.  Finally, she slide the damn thing. And guess what? It fucking worked!  Well, I would of looked pretty dumb if it didn’t :/.

A following day later I went to a mall and went into one of those shops that sells girly toy stuff because I have this thing for Hello Kitty stuff, one of the few chick characteristics I have, anyhow picked my items and thought I was going to have to battle this one out too since it was a smaller shop and only had the UnionPay logo on the door.  Nope, the girl looked at it and was like well this is different, and I just say use it like a signature card and she is like no PIN?  I’m like yep, so she does her thing and I’m out of there.

Yesterday, I went to some huge book store, like 5 floors.  My uncle and little cousin were with me, my uncle went off to look at something else.  So I went with my little cousin and let him pick out some books, my uncle hadn’t come back yet.  So I figured good opportunity for me to buy something since I hate being such a freeloader.  Anyhow, I got an older cashier who looked at me like I was crazy for trying to use the card.  She wouldn’t use the damn thing and dragged it out so that my uncle was back, who of course wouldn’t let me spend my money. 

I guess the thing is I’m a little to polite about it, I need to more aggressive and what would be considered by United States standards, rude.  However, if I want things done, that’s what it takes.  So instead of trying to tell them it’s Discover, same as your UnionPay, slide it, I’ll have to be like are you stupid, slide the thing, quit wasting my time, the machine will tell you whether or not it works you stupid hoe!  I probably won’t say the last part, but only because I don’t know how to say hoe in Chinese, hehe….