PIPPI LANGSTRUMP

These days Heisu insists on being referred to as Pippi Longstocking. (You can compare with the original TV version by clicking here). This TV series screens here every day on cable TV and it's quite popular. She insists on having her hair done that way, too.

The other day we scored some cheap videotapes. No Pippi Longstocking, unfortunately. A video shop near us was closing down, due to the impact of DVDs and illegal downloading. So we walked away with 21 videos at about 1200 won each. One or two of them were in very bad nick. We got my own childhood favourite Mighty Mouse, which Heisu loved, along with a lot of Disney stuff and a few other things, Korean, that I don't really recognise. Also Once were Warriors and a few James Bonds.

Anyway, the ajjumma there was most strange. She gave us a special price on the children's tapes, and then she changed the deal to one where we could have some other tapes cheap and pay the full price on the childrens' ones we had already chosen. When we rejected this deal, she refused to go back to the original deal: that is she wanted to charge us the full price on the original childrens' tapes that we had chosen anyway. This can sometimes happen Korea. The price of something can actually change after you have chosen it and before you pay for it!

And bus drivers! Don't get me started. They'll cheerfully drive right past you no matter how much you wave at them. They're in a very big hurry because they get a longer teabreak before they do their next bus route. Which is fine, never mind about the people who have to stand out in the freezing cold for another twenty minutes because you can't be bothered doing your job and picking them up.