Monday, June 16, 2008

Tiny Ads



At the top of the escalator, under the trees at West Lake, the Hangzhou Tower Overpass and Yanan Street are some of their favorite haunts. The hawkers (mostly young guys) are force/giving out business size cards for the local travel agents. It got to be a joke between Ricky the Australian that worked with me here at ZUFE in 2006. He would collect them and when he had a sufficiently obnoxious number of them he would slide 100's under my door late at night. And of course I would return the 'favor'. I told Kris and Jim about it and they attempted to do the same thing but with only a pitiful number of them.

To make sure I was one practical joke ahead of them before they left, Penny (ZUFE student and friend) and I barricaded their door late at night with the taped cards. Gotcha .....Snicker…