Monday, February 15, 2010

Funny encounters I experience

1. After several hours of studying, Oly and I decide to take a dinner break and head to the local Hummusia. I take my usual Hummus Egpplant and sit down with Oly at one of the tables inside the resteraunt. All of a sudden, Oly starts screaming and points at a huge cockroach on the wall next to our table. As expected, Oly approaches these guys behind the counter and tells them that there is a cockroach next to our food. The employees thought that Oly and I were these little posh ashkenazi kids from North America. They started calling us Kusiot and were so bothered as to why we made such a fuss. Here comes the best part. Besides the fact that these guys had no idea about service and caring for customers needs, an Ethipoain employee antagonistically said to Oly, "If you are scared, then go to Church". He then asked us if we were Jewish. Oly played the part well and got mad at him as if he was really wasn't jewish. Oly said, "So what if Im not jewish, what's the problem with that?". The conversation got really weird and we eventually left the restaurant both laughing and confused.

2. When I work out ay my gym here in Raanana during early hours, I always have strange experiences. Just last week, I had a nice conversation with an older Anglo man about health food. He then says, "Jake, you know why we guys work out so hard?". I reply that I do it because it makes me feel better both physically and mentally. He quickly responds and says that we just do it so we can have better sex. I just thought this was kind of funny coming from a man in his 60's who I met for the first time in my life.

3. I was doing my normal Triceps workout with a pulley machine. Next to me was an older man in his 70's walking on the treadmill. This dude was hilarious. He is always the guy who is staring a the "younger"(40-50's) women. Between him staring at Rihana on MTV and the women in the gym, he insists that the weight I am doing is way too heavy. He says that my face turns read and I try to convince him that I am naturally red and that there is no need to worry. Later on he calls me a poosie for not doing curls with the 30 Kilos and points to Rihana on his TV screen across from him. He told me that I only work out for the women. What's with these old guys thinking that I only work out because I want to look good for the women?

4. Supermarket food isn't meant for people who actually care about their health. All of the things I want, I can't actually buy. So if you care about your health, what are you supposed to actually buy at supermarkets?