Valid Question

Today Scott and the kiddos and I headed to see our first Super Wal-Mart. It was like Disneyland, folks! There was EVERYTHING you could ever imagine! I could never go grocery shopping there, even if it was closer than an hour away, for the simple fact that I'd go in for groceries and come out with a newly re-designed bathroom!

We did get a new phone/answering machine, so I can't use the "my answering machine is broke" excuse anymore...dammit...and we got a new alarm clock, so I can't use the "my kid is late to school because my alarm clock is fucked up" excuse either. DAMMIT.

We also got a new fan for the dining room and the Easy Bake Oven. Long story short - my SIL got Babygirl the Disney version for her birthday. It cooks with ice, people, ICE. As far as I can tell it uses some sort of a gelatin based mixture to make the cakes "grow". It tastes like mushy sugar. So I gently pursuaded (read: put it in the cart and said "or else") Scott that we needed the REAL Easy Bake Oven. Cause cooking with a light bulb is so much more fun than cooking with ice.

We then went to this newer Chinese food buffet that we'd heard great things about. And it was awesome! The price wasn't terrible, the food was DELICIOUS, there was plenty of it (even though it was a Tuesday), and the wait-staff was very nice. Which led me to this question:

Where in the hell do they get authentic Chinese people in the middle of Vermont?

This is a valid question! In Vermont we are very...limited...in the ethneticities that are represented here. Basically we have caucasians, caucasians, and caucasians. Okay okay, so there is an occasional black person thrown in, but really, we're very, VERY, TOO white up here.

But in almost every Chinese food place I've been in, there are real Chinese people who speak broken English and curse at the customers under their breath in perfect Chinese. Where do they come from?

The obvious answer would be, of course, China. But how do they find these people? Do they put an Ad out in a Chinese paper?

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