The three friends gamely looked for another hostel to hop to as the rooms they had taken were reserved for other guests by the third day of their stay.
They decided to drop by << insert name of hostel here such as "Hostel of the Weary Eight-headed Dragon" or something similar >>.
The three optimists stand in front of the hostel lobby's front desk.
ChehCheh (speaking English slowly in hopes of being understood):
Excuse me, do you have a vacant triple room available?
Receptionist at Hostel (looks at her curiously, maybe we need our friend Lhooh to translate?):
..........
Lhooh (in fluent and flawless Chinese with all its varying accented tones):
Would you have an available room with 3 beds? ..... a triple?
Receptionist at Hostel (checks her chart and records and mutters):
hmmm.....so, how many people will be staying?
Niao-Miao (holds up three fingers under the cover of her bag like an "Ok" sign):
........
* eh? how exactly does one count people? by their weight? hairs in the nose? *
* the Toink plot bunny hops about*
DISCLAIMER: The tales being shared by the writer in this series of blogs, while true, have been admittedly tweaked mercilessly due to the writer's twisted sense of humor. It is not meant to imply anything derogatory about the Chinese culture or people.
btw, this is a more fancy retelling of what SnappyTurtle posted in his response to my part 2 of the Beijing tales...
ReplyDelete55555 It's funny anyway.
ReplyDeletehehehe!!! toink toink talaga!!
ReplyDeletekalahati lang kase ako eh hihihihi
ReplyDeleteone reason why this trip was really amusing....
ReplyDeletewe should have asked for discount if you were considered 1/2 person...ahahahah!
ReplyDeleteLOL again! ^_^
ReplyDeleteBaka akala nung receptionist translator lang si Looh at sinamahan lang kayo para maghanap ng room sa hotel, hehe.
I was going to actually tease Loo na baka counted sya as 2 people pero baka magalit...hehehe!
ReplyDeletedi na kami samahan to look for other places...*grin*
Teka nga, were you sure Looh was really saying what you wanted said? Di kaya nya kayo binibenta? Hehehehe...
ReplyDeleteButi na lang di nyo sinapit yung katulad ng isang British tourist dito sa story na ito:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/08/25/brit-locked-in-town-hall-115875-21622258/
Hehehe.
ReplyDeleteahahaha! baka may bibili kay ChehCheh..pero I look too Chinese for me to be considered out of the ordinary don....
ReplyDeletemay nagtanong nga sa akin in the train station for directions...susme!
if only I knew how to speak Mandarin etc. baka mag-joke din ako with - where do you want to go, left or right? then give an answer so patently obvious as revenge for all those times...mwahahah!
hehe, maybe it looked too much like a hotel...don medyo obvious eh...I don't know how I can shout "Help!" in the language...
ReplyDeleteLOL! Three people and three beds hmmm....... That's a tough one.
ReplyDeleteI had several theories, one of which was that people sometimes got rooms with a particular number of beds, but crammed others in....
ReplyDeleteor...that we weren't counted as whole people *wink*