We had gone to Walmart in China. As you know, Wal-mart is so big sometimes it's a bit difficult to find out things. We were searching for butter.

Almost 99% of chinese population doesn't know english but still we did the stupid thing of explaining the guy there. Our dumb charades skills were coming to the fore. Still he didn't have any clue what we were referring to. Then something struck him, he said something to us in Chinese and went of as if searching for something. Firstly, we thought it was a miracle that we had conveyed a message to a Chinese guy without any use of verbal language. But to our disappointment, he came back with another guy. That guy came to us said that he knew English. So finally we had someone to whom we could talk to and we said that we wanted a pack of butter. But things were not going to be easy for us because this guy had an even blank expression on his face like we were some aliens from Mars and speaking some really alien language. After many trials, he asked us one question "Can you please speak in English?" - after this we had no choice but to find the item ourselves.

Posted by Anish on Wednesday, April 26, 2006 at 7:04 AM | Permalink