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Q: Anyone ever won a staring contest with an old Chinese man?
You know the kind: 50-60 year old Chinese dude, faded t-shirt generously accentuating his beer-belly, blue plastic slippers on his feet (socks on, of course), a vacant look in his eyes. He's like a rhino, confident in his element.
And then he sees you. You think it's a cowboy-staring contest, but really, he's just a rhino, evaluating this new creature. Predator, prey or rock? He's not quite sure, and judging by the duration of the stare, he might never be.
Have any of you, in that moment, managed to be so still, and to return the stare so perfectly, that you managed to be a rock, in the old Chinese man's savannah?
Your metaphor laden account of such a simple behavior is not lost on this poster. To answer your question however; I guess I have accomplished the task at hand a few times in my 7 years here. Quite satisfying I must say.
I gave up on trying to be the rock. So now I'm the rock that waves at him, while saying "ni hao, ni kan shen me kan?" Most Chinese people try their best to escape from this kind of otherworldly rock....so that works well for me also.
Nope, never have beat an old man at this, yet back in the States I often beat the perps I was processing...
These old guys are just too tough!
One time, when I was very drunk, I came across an old man like this. He stared at me, I stared at him, he stared at me, then I grabbed my chest like they were a set of DD's and shook them in his direction while I blew him a kiss.
Then we both laughed for 10 minutes straight and he offered me a cigarette. When the world stares at you, blow it a kiss and everything will be okay.
Xpat.John:
Right after I posted this, a friend sent me this link. It kind of reminded me of that night. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCiY1y3uJ3o&feature=g-all-u (You will need a VPN to see it if you are in China.
i came across a different game when me and my mate was drunk.
in hainan sanya, you will find shit loads of taxis and they stop beside every person to see if they need to go anywhere, so we was drunk and this one night a taxi driver pulled over and rolled down his window and me and my friend wanted to see how long we could talk(in broken chinese ofcorse) to him about taxi unrelated things before he would ask where we want to go, and we got into like a 10 min convo and then he popped the question after" qu na li( where do you want to go) and ofcorse we said bu yao xie ie( no thanks) and he drove away like nothing happend . we did this a few times but our chinese mates started to get angry hahahah
