2019-11-01 joke

interaction with audience

It's been a real long time since last time I took a bus. But every time I talk or hear about bus, the packed scene will emerge in my mind and soon brings back tons of memories. There's an interesting one. 

This is a real story happened to one of my foreign friends, Alex, not long after he moved to Chengdu. Alex is an Asian American. So he speaks fluent English but only a little Chinese. Awkward conversations always happen when people in the street try to sell him things. ONE day he jumped on a crowed bus and squeezed himself through the crowd into the bus. Later on, a strange face turned to him, a man holding a delicate card in the hand. Alex thought, ANOTHER guy tries to sell something to me. So "No thanks", he replied politely. The man said something in Chinese, Sichuan dialect, which Alex couldn't understand and then he gave the card to Alex.  Alex returned the card unpleasantly and said "No need! Thanks!" even in Chinese “不要。不需要。”  Then the man seemed very angry, but Alex didn't want to talk with him anymore. 

When he came back and talked about it with a few friends, I felt really sorry for him being troubled with such kind of stuff all the time. However, another friend who was poignant pointed it out, " He wasn't asking you to buy it! He was asking you to pass it through. It was his e-ticket! "