it reminds me of one Hallowe'en when a neighbour dressed himself up as a scarecrow, old hat, old shirt, straw sticking out of his pants and sleeves, and sat beside his door on a bale of straw without moving. As children and parents came to the house some would go over to him and touch him and he would say 'Boo'! Scared the hell out of them and their parents. We laughed so much.
One time my daughter worked as a model. One job she had was to model some clothing for a store. She had to stand outside the store and pretend that she was a mannequin, one of those artificial people that they dress up and put in store windows. She had sunglasses on so that she could blink her eyes but she had to stand perfectly still for 45 minutes and then she would get a 15 minute break. Try standing perfectly still for 45 minutes. Very difficult to do. People would come up to her and poke her or make comments, 'is she real?' 'she looks so real!'. Some teenage boys came and started touching her because they thought that she was artificial. She reacted and they jumped! They ran away.
Enjoy. I am getting a Christmas tree this week. A small thing but it will have lights and decorations. The stores here are playing Christmas carols in Chinese and in English. KFC staff have been wearing santa hats for two weeks. They don't know much about Christmas but it is getting so much like the West. Commercialism. Stores have Christmas decorations and very few people are Christian but Walmart and RT-Mart and the English store, Tesco, lead the way. The people just think that it is something they should do. Like Valentine's Day. They're not sure why but if it well help me sell more stuff then I am all in favour of it.
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