Friendly old man in McDonalds
12
Feb
2009
I was in line at McDonald’s on Wednesday when an older Korean man began speaking to me. He seemed very excited to see an American and he asked if he could join me at my table. His english wasn’t very good, but he had a lot to say. I told him I rode my bike here and he said he too was a rider. He invited me to come riding with him sometime. I said I probably would and I gave him my business card with my email address on it.
He sent me an email a few days later. Now in his email I’m sure he used some kind of bad translation software for writing it but I assure you, he does have an interesting, and I guess you could say, broad vocabulary. For example, when I went up to buy a second hamburger at Mcdonalds he said my appetite was ravenous and gluttonous. Makes you wonder about the methods people go about learning English here in Korea. Below is his email.
Dear friend, aaron heine,
this is yoon ki,kim in seoul
how are yu getting alng with today>
i am an old man who happen to run into each other at the Machdolado restraung on last wenseday night, by chance, thus having a convivail colloquy ,or discours both ,,
can yu surmise or conjectur who iam and what kindof bearing ,mien i possess?
this is a saturady afternoon, , the dismal wether , drizzle or copious with the mauve clouds, that some other omen would evoke out , in the row, ,stormy , rainfall, snowfall. or other inclemental wethart, , that is the protype of our winter’s climate, ,
that is why i am appraising or acclaiming over this chane of season, with the typical four season,,
in the sweating summer time wheras the severe or mercillss winter’s siber; winds, , that is something that sometimes, innovatcate or regenerates over any desparing moods, on the other hands, rushing into the new motive, or to kown what this life is in existence,,
likewise, it is the changes or alteration by the community , social exercise, momentary entertaiment like a singing , laughter , engrosing in studying that makes us more discern to desever our life values, ,
hi aaron, ,
my phone is 010-4321-xxx pls get in touch with each other by this email or mobile. why dont we pushing any biking on ?/ dont be any banished, expelled , depelled or set aside by other giannt GOrihlia, , or other obstacles, hinderance, ,
life is so and so, , have a good tim,e God blesses on yu ,,
best regards
from: yoon ki, kim
The elderly man is of an almost indeterminable age; somewhere between seventy and two hundred years old, grandfather.