Pissing, Hocking & Cockroaches!

Baby at the Resteraunt with his Gran

Firstly, all the babies (Children that would normally wear nappies!) wear babygrows that have a split in the back, and dont wear nappies or pants! The children have their little bums showing and just do there business as and when they please, but without anything to catch it! Now I have seen lots of kids wearing these, but the first time I actually got to witness it was in Tesco (of all places!). A little girl obviously needed to go, so her mum held her near the ground and she proceeded to do her business in the middle of the dried frut aisle! (Luckily it was only a number 1!) I think I did just stop, open mouthed and stare! I couldn't belive it! Everyone else didn't even blink and went on with their shopping as normal! When she was done, the woman didn't even call someone to clean it up, she just walked off! This was quite a few weeks ago, and is something I have now witnessed many times! I realised a couple of days ago after an incident in the restaurant (near my house) The woman who works there has a baby who's probably not even 1! He's really cute and she is always plonking him on my knee to take pictures! (I'm careful not to hold him for long incase he pisses on me!) Anyway, I was just enjoying some noodles and right next to me she holds him to the ground so as he can have a wee. I didn't even blink. It was on the floor of a RESTAURANT! I was eating! They have a toilet! And I wasn't bothered in the slightist! Only afterwards did I realise how shocked I was when I first arrived and now it's just another one of those things that become "Normal"!!!
The Hurrendous noises made by the chinese (Men and Women!) when hocking up phlem really did make me heave when I first arrived! Now I only notice it when I'm walking down the street and I dont have to dodge loogies!! I realised this a week or so ago when I noticed the hocking for the first time in quite a while! It was when I had my rather unpleasant visit to the hospital! Walking down the corridor of the hospital, My Buddy - Mr Young had a little phlem he needed to be rid of, so he hocked it up and spat it out right on the floor! Not in the greatest of moods at that time I did stop in my tracks, giving him my best 'disgusted' face and said (shouted!) " This is a hospital!!!!" before giving him a tissue and demanding that he remove his fluid from the dirty floor! Luckily we can laugh about it now! It's something that the Chinese do, and they don't see it as disgusting or rude (they actually think we are gross for blowing our noses!) Oh yeah, sometmes they just put there finger over one nostril and force the snot out of the other! ( Strangely it really makes me laugh!) It's another one of those things that really is disgusting, but you quickly forget and it soon becomes normal! I'm sticking to blowing my nose though - let them stare... they do anyway!!
Flicking cockroaches off the table when eating at a restaurant does happen on a regular basis, but this is something I don't think I could ever get used to. And although I don't scream anymore it's still something I would rather not have to do!!

I will leve it there for the time being, but will try to remember these litlle things and include them in my Blogs!

written by  emmarogers85 on October 30, 2007 from Shenyang, China
from the travel blog: Teach and Travel China - 6 Months
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