Thanksgiving Seoul Trip part 1: cell phones and elderly women

So Amber and I just got back from Seoul and I thought that I would write about one huge thing that I noticed... people's obsessions with cell phones. Now I know what you are thinking, that Americans are also obsessed with cell phones, and I totally agree, but I have never seen anything truly like this before. We would be walking around Seoul, and you would see these people on the sidewalk walking really really slow, and the first thought is, "I know what they are doing"... texting or chatting or facebooking or whatever. That is annoying, but not nearly as annoying as when it happens in the subway or on the way getting on or off the subway. No joke, we would be standing on the subway and almost everyone on the train would have their phone out... they would be talking on it, watching a movie on it, texting, or using facebook, and so many other things... and be warned, its not like America were its people up until about their 50s doing it, oh no, its this entire country. You will be on the train and looking at this 70 year old woman sitting there and all the sudden she whips out a phone and starts surfing the net and you're like "does it ever end here". I swear that we must have seen 10,000 cell phones over the course of 3 days up there. And its fine if you want to chat or whatever on your phone, but dont take up space and make it impossible for others to get anywhere... its very hard walking up the stairs when the 4 people ahead of you all have their damn phones out walking half the speed of smell.

Which leads me to the next step, the elderly women of Seoul. I always assumed, apparently wrongly, that as one gets older they are a little more friendly and more into enjoying life... well this weekend changed that. While traversing Seoul, Amber and I must have been bumped into and assaulted by 3 dozen old Korean ladies. These little old ladies who look so sweet, are vicious... they know where they are going and they want to get there as fast as possible and they will push, walk around, and even channel their "inner NFL fullback" and just drop their shoulders and try to plow right into you. Just for reference, its not just to foreigners, they will do that to anyone that stands in their way.

So if you combine the things, you get slowed down by everyone on their phones only to get pushed, shoved, and rammed into by little old ladies on a mission to get to their location. Life is fun, more Seoul blogs to come soon, plus pictures.