Oh shit! Wassup Laowai!
Where you from?
For real? Where you teach at?
You aint a teacher? Where you study at?
Oh so you a company man. How much you make?
Writer?!
Yeah right, lying ass.
How long you been here?
Holy shit! So you like Chengdu?
Can you eat spicy food?
Hell no. Really: Can you eat spicy food?
Well I’ll be damned. You married?
No? You like our Sichuan girls? Flyest in China.
hehehe. Thats what I’m sayin.
allright my man. walk slow.
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man man zou… this would be the exact conversation i would have transcribed from those cabbies too… only i didn’t understand their every word. but they did put in the part about sichuan girls… surprisingly…
maybe they saw that lecherous gleam in my eye.