Thanks a lot Blanket Lady......... NOT!

I got racial stereotyped today!!!
Yeah, we were at Kumo World, this giant electronics store that also carries a lot of other strange things and I noticed a couple of booths selling blankets. Now for reasons I cannot ascertain, we only got comforters when we moved in, and it doesn't seem common for people to have normal bed sheets. You can buy them, but there's not a huge selection, which is totally cool. But we only got really thick comforters, so I was hoping to buy some thinner ones today. Now a major part of our first problem was language. We are working on learning a lot of things, but we haven't learned how to talk money. Usually the vendors are used to foreigners and write out prices or put them on the cash register screen, or type them out on a calculator. I've had plenty of vendors who speak enough to tell me the price in English. This woman apparently did not want to do any of those things. I asked her for the price, and wrote out a little won symbol and a question mark next to it and she told me a price in Korean. No problem, I still had paper out so I asked her to write it down. She wrote down 5,000 won, as far as I could tell. I'm thrilled cause I'm thinking that I can get one for each bed for under $10.00. I reach into my wallet and give her 10,000 won and she shakes her head at me. She tells me the price in Korean again, which clearly won't work as I've already had to bring out paper to get her to write it out. I again hand her the paper and ask her to write it out. Again with the 5,000 won. I think maybe she's telling me that they're two for one, so I offer her 5,000 won. Now she gets angry with me and chews me out in Korean. Finally I tell her I'm sorry in Korean and good bye in Korean. She glared at me and Steve as we walked away and I was annoyed because I really wanted those blankets. We get to the next stall that we find that sells blankets, and try to approach the woman there about buying a blanket. She pretty much refused to talk to us and sent us out of her store. She refused to give us prices and refused to talk to us. So tonight I will be sleeping again under my ridiculously thick comforter. Tomorrow I'm going to one of the blanket stores near the school. There's several, and one of them must be willing to sell a blanket to a white person who's just tired of being hot at night... So I've officially been the victim of racism. It was very strange because even here usually people accept the fact that we don't know what the crap they're saying and seem to find it novel to try to communicate with us.

On the up side I managed to order our lunch with out much help from the picture menu today. I asked the waitress to bring us two bowls of the soup with sushi please. She did confirm it on the menu with me, my accent must still be pretty thick, but she pointed at the right picture. So take that blanket lady. I didn't want your blanket any how... ok I really did, but now I'm glad I didn't buy it from you... at least until I go to sleep.

Good night everyone.