You Want Soup?

Made a new friend yesterday during McUser’s karaoke birthday outing.  This new friend, whom I shall call F, hails from the USA, looks like Salman Khan, is a kiasu Chinese at heart, and drinks like a German.  The man’s a walking poster child for multi-cultural diversity.

Why the kiasu bit?  Well, we arrived at Red Box few minutes after 9pm.  And the buffet table closes at 10pm.  That gave us less than an hour to heap our plates with the goodies.  After being directed to our karaoke cubicle, F and I rushed to the buffet tables to gather food like there’s no tomorrow.

“You Want Soup?”

For all his multi-cultural diversity, to F, one Chinese girl looks about the same as another.  As he was ladling soup into bowls on his tray, he asked the Chinese girl next to him, “You want soup?” He thought the girl was me.

The girl just froze, gave him a hard stare and walked away.

F was taken aback for a while and then chuckled good-naturedly.

Moral of the story:

1. Verify the identity of the person you are speaking to before opening your mouth.
2. Don’t ever say, “You want soup?” to strange women. They may think it’s the lousiest pick-up line ever.

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