I dropped into Debut the other night on my way home. Just one guy sitting at the bar. Before I could take my coat off, he bought me a beer. I thanked him and he said “how’s it going, John”.
I asked if we had met, and he said “no, but I have been reading your blog from day one”. That always trips me out when it happens. But it got weirder. He also worked at the U.S. Department of Education before he came to Korea. He got here a few months before I did. I don’t think we ever met at ED, but he worked with a guy I spent a lot of time with. Anyway, he knew my whole story, all the ups and downs of my experience here almost as well as I did.
I didn’t have much time to chat, but I left him an open invite to email me (or comment here) if he wants to get togehter sometime for a few drinks and talk of the old days.
It was a real cool experience though.
“That always trips me out when it happens.”
You star! That stuff never happens to me. Well… it happened only once, and that dude was Charlie Reeder of the blog Budae Chigae. I consider him a good friend now. And he’s got a very nice wife.
Kevin
Yes, Kevin. I am practically famous! Actually, what trips me out is people keep coming back for more of the inane drivel I serve up here at LTG. Site Meter tells me there are about 50 or so masochists who drop by for a dose of pain on a daily basis.
Or maybe people visit when they are feeling down and come away thinking “at least I’m not him!”. So, call this blog a public service.
As a woman once told me: “No man is totally worthless. He can always serve as a bad example.”
That’s funny!