foreigner eats pizza

that would have been the headline for the news story about me.

i had good reason to be at work on a saturday from 8 until about 2 PM, in which i didn't eat very much but some snacks i had. as i was about to head home, i ran into the wife of a coworker (several other people were at work that day for a completely different reason) who was carrying a box of leftover pizza from the other people's lunch, which she promptly offered to me. i accepted because i was hungry and had no other previous notions about where my lunch was going to come from.

i proceeded to walk to the bus stop to wait for the right public bus that would take me home, carrying the box of pizza with me. at the bus stop, a few chinese people were also waiting, and watching me, of course. i stood there with the box of pizza for a couple minutes, but then my hunger overpowered my care of whatever chinese people who were watching would be entertained by, and i started to eat the pizza. one bus came up and stopped, that was not the right bus for me, so i kept eating pizza. several people on the bus were watching me as it stopped, and one guy was laughing at me.

who stands at a bus stop and eats pizza from a box? me.

i wasn't finished when my bus came either, so i got on the bus and sat down and ate the other piece too.