{"id":375,"date":"2011-10-16T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-16T10:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parosparadise.com\/CzechMates\/2011\/10\/16\/expat-awkwardness\/"},"modified":"2014-06-30T08:26:23","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T07:26:23","slug":"expat-awkwardness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parosparadise.com\/CzechMates\/2011\/10\/16\/expat-awkwardness\/","title":{"rendered":"Expat Awkwardness"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Hauling<\/a>I decided to buy a desk chair for our furnished apartment but didn’t like the affordable ones that came in a box from Ikea.\u00a0 So we went to a Furniture Bazaar near the Eden shopping center.\u00a0 They had both low-priced antiques and used furniture including a dozen chairs of the style that I wanted.\u00a0 But they don’t deliver small\u009d items.\u00a0 Since it was raining I decided to come back another day.<\/p>\n

So I picked a sunny day and after the morning busy time on the trams to go back.\u00a0 Sure enough the tram I caught near the Bazaar was mostly empty, but did fill up by the time I got to the Nameste Miru transfer point.\u00a0 There I had to wait awhile for the next tram, which of course, made it quite full.\u00a0 But I barged on with the chair anyway and tried to give everyone an apologetic look.\u00a0 People looked at me but I did not see any sour looks until the next stop when I ran the chair into the legs of one passenger in order to allow another passenger off.<\/p>\n

Karin had arranged to meet me at our stop for a photo opportunity, but the other people getting on and off spoiled the shot.\u00a0 So I just became a crazy old man with his rolling chair.<\/p>\n

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