A Friendly Old Woman

Yes, if your reading this, your probably in a complete state of shock since this is the first post I've made in ages.  But, times are changing, and I have to spend 4 days at school this week with absolutely nothing to do, so I'll attempt to make a few posts.

Last Friday, I get off work early at 230, and figure I'll try to be productive for the remainder of the day.  As soon as I get out of the school, I realize that I should probably just go straight home because its about 36 degrees and humid as all hell, but I continue on with my plans.  First I stop at the bank, pay some bills, yadda yadda yadda.  Then, I visit the local market beside my apartment. I first stop at a little supermarket and pick up some lettuce ($1 for a big bag), cherry tomatoes ($1.50 for big bag), red and yellow peppers ($3) and go back outside to the outdoor market.  I see a big bowl of peaches, maybe about 15 of them ($5) and am starting to think that I'm doing pretty good shopping.  Im just about to head home, when I notice an old woman, maybe 60-80, hard to tell because most people in Korea look much younger than they really are.  She could have been 100 for all I know.  She has a bunch of giant plums, so I decide to get $5 worth.  Looking like a kind lady, she starts checking the plums, feeling them first and then putting them into a bag for me.  She continues until she has 5 plums in the bag.  I'm kind of shocked that I've only been able to get 5 plums for this price, but I figure that shes been nice enough to me by inspecting the plums first and continue home.

Around 10, Kristin decides maybe she'll have one of these plums. To my amazement, she tells me that one of the plums happens to be rotten. Thats ok, I guess the old woman isn't perfect. Then, after a closer inspection of the rest of the plums, it became apparent that this old woman is far from friendly.  She's sold me 5 rotten plums.  She went through the trouble of searching through her large basket to specifically find me 5 rotten plums.  She may as well of just took my money, yelled and me in Korean, and not given me anything at all.  It's Monday now, and I'm still quite bitter about the whole matter. I don't know how I'm going to do it, but one of these days, that woman is going to get some payback from me.