This little piggy

Trip Start Sep 01, 2005
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Trip End Dec 04, 2006


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Wednesday, August 30, 2006

We manged to get a hard sleeper to Panzihua! Yay! But the train was old and dirty and we left from the dirtiest train station I have ever seen. The amount of dust and grim had compacted over time and this 1cm layer of black stuff coated everything including some of the people waiting for their trains. We counted ourselves lucky though as later inspection after getting on the train revealed that the following carriage had gotten the shorter end of the stick. With the same prices for all the carriages we deduced that we had the old carriage and they got the really really old carriage which was dirty, brown and rusty. I could feel the gaze of their eyes following the people walking through their cart thinking to themselves "why us, why was I choosen for this carriage", I felt so sorry for those guys I almost gave them some of the worlds best duck that we had but the duck said no.

When we caught our bus for Lijiang it had almost seemed normal that we were to have 5 women with 6 kids ranging from 2 months to 3 years old accompanying them. For the remainder of the trip they would change the nappies in the bins provided (lucky), pee in the bins provided (unlucky) and at any one time the baby will be crying or about to cry. If it wasn't enough on the last bus ride, Amber had her shoe vomited on with noddles by the 3 year old boy sitting in front of her. However my attention lay with the village women beside me who had stretched out her right leg resting her foot on the back of the seat of the person in front of me. Now this lady had no shoes and very dirty feet and was wiggling her toes which I didn't really care until she tried to start a conversation with me whenever the babies stopped crying. To top off she obviously thought that I wanted more and then extended the other foot over to tempt me. Now I'm not sure if I was paranoid but the signs were all there "sinister smile" "wiggling toe" "striking gaze" "stroking of the hair" "meaningless chatter" "double foot action" (she almost dropped the baby in the process). Considering the circumstances I believe she thought I had a dirty toe fetish and even though I couldn't understand a word she was saying it sounded like an offer for a free touch or taste.
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