In Korea, the national hand signal for "no" is making an "x" with either your arms or your two pointer fingers. Either way, it's nice that you can communicate a negative in such a simple way.
On to my story.
As the evenings began to cool off a few weeks ago, it was apparent I was in need of a warm hoodie for walking the dog and just general things you do when you live life walking and biking everywhere. There's an Abercrombie/Hollister section at our local "HomePlus" (Target/Superstore equivalent) and I decided I deserved my little piece of SoCal style. So, Thomas and I biked down last Thursday before work to make the purchase. I excitedly locked my bike, and made my way to the olive green hoodie I knew was the one for me. The sales girl proceeded to take it off the rack and help me into it. And help I needed. As I squeezed my first arm in, it was apparent this wasn't my size, but I squished my other arm in just to make sure. In case I wasn't already positive, I zipped it up. Had I needed a corset with a fuzzy hood I would have dropped the 58,000 won in a second. Thankfully common sense kicked in and I took it off to see the size. Medium. Hmmm, that's a bit of a blow. Oh well, "larg-ee?" I asked, in my very sophisticated Korea-ficated English. The salesgirl looked at me, crossed her two pointer fingers in an "x", and proceeded to giggle as she stated "no!". Now imagine the giggling trailing off as I turned and walked away.
So what did I do? Went next door to the Outlet store and dropped way more than I should have on a fabulous, down-filled, puffy jacket (size small). Take that, lil' bitch! Oh well, I'm a heck of a lot warmer and it was actually a far more practical purchase. Still, if I could go back and give that lil' Korean gal a slap, I just might.
take that bitch! aaahahahhahahahahhahahaha
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