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"Felis Concolor" <concolor@rahul.net> wrote in message
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>
> ObFood: Today I went into the Ranch 99 Asian market in Cupertino.
> I bought many Oriental goodies, including a durian.
>
> When I went to the checkout line, I noticed a cart full of groceries
> waiting to the side. A few minutes later, an older Chinese woman
> walked up. I asked her if she had been there before, and told her
> that she could go ahead of me.
>
> She said that was OK, because I didn't have very much stuff. She
> looked at my durian, and said it wasn't a very good durian. She
> told me that she would go back to the durian display and get me
> a better one.
>
> I kept an eye on her stuff. In a few minutes, she came back with
> a better durian. She showed me the bright yellow flesh showing through
> a nick in the side. She handed me the durian, put her arm around me
> and tickled the palm of my hand.
>
> The clerk admired the durian, and said it was a really _good_ durian.
> She and my friend gabbled in Chinese about what a good durian it
> really was.
>
> I'm not sure if this woman was a lesbian, or just being friendly.
> I didn't stick around to find out.
>
> I'm left, however, with two questions:
>
> 1) How _do_ you tell what's a good durian?

There is no such thing as a good durian.  They are all vile.

>
> 2) If someone was going to be groped in a Ranch 99 market by an
> aging lotus blossom, why, why on earth couldn't it be Julian
> instead of me?
>

We in the US are so sexually repressed that any kind of touching is
considered groping.  In Asian countries it is not uncommon for men to walk
hand in hand with other men, and women with other women.  They are just
friends, nothing sexual about it.
> Lenore Levine
>
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