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A pretty girl in front of me. A pretty girl behind me. Next to me, in the aisle seat, a gentleman in his 50s sucking snot down his post-nasal cavity as though it were ambrosia.
Four years ago I came to China as an intern by day, party-boy by night, one starred-and-striped herring in a school of Westerners. Socially speaking, nothing was expected of me. If I was a conversational deadbeat or a social delinquent, I was forgiven on account of my age or my nationality.
Yes, this time will be different. There will be no get-out-of-jail-free cards when I commit faux-pas. I will pour tea. I will buy gifts for my bosses and their children. I will host dumpling dinners.
A few hours later, nose-suck man is still going strong. A diaspora of fellow mucus lovers joins the chorus from various points across the fuselage. Is this the cacophony of disgusting old men? I kill the thought. When in Rome, don’t put down the Romans.
