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A good friend of mine has just found a new apartment in Shanghai and after she’d finished telling me about the new place, I realised I had not asked her why she was moving in the first place.
“It’s complicated” she replied, which of course aroused my interest and prompted me to ask for the juicy details.
It turns out she has a Chinese room mate who is from Anhui, a neighbouring province. The room mate’s brother came to Shanghai with his girlfriend to look for work and of course had nowhere to stay. Shanghai is an expensive city compared to Anhui which is one of China’s poorest provinces, so it was agreed they could stay at my friend’s apartment “for a few days”.
I know most of you will see where this is going. We’ve all had experiences of guests overstaying their welcome, but there’s a bit more to it in this case. You see, one day my friend was getting ready to go out and happened to pass her room mate’s room. The door was wide open and inside, the room mate’s brother and his girlfriend were having sex.
Surely this was an accidental oversight on their part, forgetting to close the door, but apparently after that, it happened several times more. Sometimes they did it on the sofa (very distracting if you’re trying to enjoy a DVD), sometimes in the room with the door wide open.
Now, I know the Chinese are quite open about going to the toilet in the sense that many times I’ve seen people not even bother to close or lock the cubicle doors when they are going for number two, hell, some toilets don’t even have doors, but I always assumed sex was still something that Chinese were pretty shy about. Maybe it’s an Anhui thing. I think I need to make a trip to Anhui to investigate!
Anyway, it all worked out, my friend has found a great new place and is going to inform her room mate that she’s moving out this weekend. I really do feel bad for her. It’s just so selfish and inconsiderate of them to be having sex all hours of the day …. and not inviting everyone else to join in!
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