Too Long In Coming

SOTW

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"We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it."


I have found, in life, that sometimes it does not matter how well prepared mentally you are for things; coming face to face with them can still catch you off guard and find a way to make you look foolish. Like that time you went to the theater to see Transformers 2 knowing the whole time it would be terrible, and yet it still managed to surprise you. Then you realized that you actually went to the theater to watch it. hmmm

As it is in most Asian countries, it is polite to take your shoes off when going into someone's home. This also includes some restaurants and other places. Well, on my final 12 hour flight from Los Angeles to Inchon, South Korea, I was on an Asiana flight, which is a Korean company. Everyone on the plane was Korean except for me and one other guy. After we had taken off, the flight attendants came around and started handing out slippers to everyone. I was given my pair and looked down at them thinking, "What am I supposed to do with these?" I did not want to be the only person to take my shoes off and look like an idiot, and there was no one else on my row that I could take a cue from. So I started trying to peek around the seats to figure out what the Korean people were doing, and sure enough everyone was taking off their shoes and putting the slippers on. Next thing I know I'm starting to pull my shoes off all the while thinking, "What am I doing?!" Once I got through with that, I started to look around and decided to try to turn on the screen in front of me to watch a movie. I took a look at the remote, and discovered it was covered in Korean. So I picked a promising looking button and pushed it... the assistance light above my seat comes on. One of the Korean flight attendants comes over to me and asks me a question in Korean. These kind of accidental incidents, which most people just shrug off, for some reason really embarrass me. I would like to know what my face looked like at that point, because it must have been pretty good. The attendent gave an all-too-knowing-smile, turned off my light and walked off. Needless to say, that remote stayed untouched for the rest of the trip.

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