Bon Chicken Bon Bon

Three things made me very happy today.

1. Awesome stroll and bike ride along the Han river today.  There was a lovely park and lovely company and most lovely of all, we had fried chicken for dinner.  And the chicken was delivered to the park.  How amazing is that?  Every major park in the world should have the option of fried chicken delivery.  Though I would just settle for fried chicken home delivery.  It's not fair how many fried chicken joints there are in this country.  They even have an abbreviated term -chimaek- for (fried) chicken and beer.  That's how common it is.  You've got to respect a country like that.

2. What do I love more than awkwardity?  More than pictures of foreign toilets?  Foreign toilet awkwardity.  I don't have a picture yet, but I learned today that what I thought was the overzealous, unnecessary emergency button in the metro bathroom stalls were actually equally unnecessary "courtesy buttons."  What are courtesy buttons?  They make a flush noise to disguise any other noises that you may be making that you want to disguise.  Except it sounds totally fake, so people will still know that you are doing something that warrants noise cover up.  Also, it doesn't make a lot of sense.  People will also know what you are doing by the length of time you are in the bathroom and of course, the smell.  Plus, the courtesy flush button doesn't actually flush.  So really, it announces to the whole world that you are peeing loudly, retching, or dropping a deuce.  Happy flushings!

3. I thought I'd left my anti-itch cream at home but I just found it and all is well with the world.  Except for the clear liquid oozing out of my mosquito bite (sorry, we already talked toilet stuff so I thought we could continue in this streak).  Finding the cream has actually been my happiest accomplishment today.  And I've had a really good day.  Because I am supposed to apply this cream 2 weeks out of each month.  And I am not supposed to eat that much fried chicken.