Friday, June 27, 2008

New culture

My tutor told me this story, some of you might have already heard of it but some of you might have not. Let me share it with you.

Once a tourist went to shopping and came upon a shop which sells branded t-shirts, and most importantly they were all very cheap. So the tourist was very attracted to it and took a look at them...he found that the quality was not bad and the label also said 'Guarantee no shrink'. So he trusted it and bought a few more to bring back to his country as gifts. The next few days the tourist wore some of the t-shirts and eventually wash them. When he got them out form the washing machine he was surprise. The t-shirt had shrunk.

So the furious tourist took the t-shirt and went back to the store.He wanted a refund. The store owner look at him and ask what was wrong. The tourist said that he trusted him so he bought the t-shirt but now the t-shirt had shrunk.
The store owner look at him and ask:"You not from here a?"
Tourist:"No, I'm Australian."
store owner:"Ooo...no wonder...you miss understood la...in Chinese we read from right to left not left to right. The label reads 'Shrink no guarantee' la."

Get it?

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