A Funny Story From China

There were no Rally’s or Hardies and I couldn’t just call up and order a pizza I had to work to acquire some type of nourishment and I just was not motivated to do it. However, out of necessity I quickly rid myself of this attitude. My first real encounter with a barrier to communication came when I along with Anthony Cash entered what we thought was an authentic Asian restaurant. I think those that already occupied the establishment were just as surprised at our entrance as we were to be entering. Once we sat down the entertainment really began. Our waiter was quite happy to have us but had no way of expressing his delight besides through his gestures and his smile. We were just as handicapped and were perplexed by a menu that had nothing more then Chinese characters on it. What were we to do? Fortunately Matt Flairity had created a small guide-book in which if we came in contact with any problems we could look to it for assistance. So being hungry, we used the book to ask the waiter for chicken fried rice. However, the waiter was not familiar with the symbol and so we were still at square one. So being as impatient as I was I simply did the next best thing that I could think of and that was to make the sound and movements of a chicken. Even this to my dismay did not work. We eventually ended up getting some type of rice layered with some type of meat which weren’t that particular about. Yet, this experience further proved to me that we would have to be very creative to garner what we wanted