Expat Double Takes Stories part 2, our Bizarro life in China.

Edit to add:  Part 1 of Double Takes.

I just heard this story from the grapevine, and it was too funny to not share.  This story might offend some people, but please be reassured, there is no offence meant.  This is a true story, but it was meant to be told strictly comically.  😛

A German friend of a buddy (who speaks fluent Chinese) was chatting up some girl in a bar.  They hit it off and decided to go on a date the day after.  His buddies gave him a hard time for asking the hot girl out (the usual, yeah, you got her number because you are a foreigner kind of jokes ), but they wished him the best.  After a week, they obviously ganged up on him on the usual weekly get together to get a status report out of him.  You know, the usual thing, where did you take her?  Did you guys do it, etc.  The German friend said that he would never ask her out ever again.  Because he looked so incredulous, everyone was shocked and confused as to what happened.  The usual questions came out, was she packing? (in Chinese, this can mean that she is carrying something she shouldn’t have, meaning it’s a he)  Was she bad at kissing, in bed, sick, etc, etc. 

He told them the most hilarious and the most incredulous story.  They had a good time at their date.  BeiHai park (nice date spot, but a bit cliched’) and lunch at HouHai kind of a deal.  During their late lunch, the conversation drifted to their respective home towns.  Of course, the German friend was talking about Germany and all that.  And OUT of NOWHERE, the Chinese girl threw in this comment like (as)a matter of course, like she knows all about it,  “Oh yeah, Isn’t Hitler your Founding Father? (as in Isn’t Washington the Founding Father of America)”. 

By this point, the entire brigade that was listening to the story spewed out whatever liquid or solid food they had in their mouth, with half of them choking and creating a huge mess in the restaurant.  Some of them were laughing so hard that the waitress came over immediately to see if they were in medical distress.  Of course, the German friend laughed really hard too, because he finds it so incredulous that it’s hilarious.  They asked him how he answered the girl.  He made a face like he doesn’t know how to react, and said he was so brain fried over the statement that he made a polite excuse to go to the washroom, came back, said he had an important matter at work he needed to attend to, paid for the lunch, escorted her to the taxi and left. 

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Ladies and Gentlemen, in life, truth is stranger than fiction.