Why do the girls only get love stories?
It seems I've neglected to copy down (which surely I must, for posterity's sake) further adventures with Mr. Pho Fetish Man. To review:
1. After coming home from visiting family in Vietnam, I was altered that a 37 year old man (I'm 24) had fallen in love with me there after seeing me eating pho in a restaurant
2. He'd somehow gotten the number of my aunt who lives in America, and had been calling her relentlessly to set up a marriage
3. He does not speak English, and was informed I barley speak Vietnamese
4. But he kept calling anyway, asking to speak to me or my mother (who at least speaks Vietnamese)
5. Our family who knows him say he is a “hard worker”
Since then...
6. Mr. PFM has started calling my uncle who lives in America as well
7. He says he bought a cell phone for the specific purpose of doing this (mind, electronics in Vietnam seem to be EXTREMELY expensive. As in the price tag is about the same as here, maybe a little higher, but my uncle, for example, makes $5 a day doing manual labor)
8. He now visits my aunt's house (in Vietnam) every day to try to get in touch with me
9. He was in the house one time when my mom and I were on the phone with her, but mom refused to talk to him because she didn't “want to give him hope”
10. Turns out he's actually 39
11. And saw me buying sandwiches at his...aunt's sandwich stand? Not at eating pho in a restaurant
12. He wants to chat with me online.
13. To arguments that we have never actually interacted, he said I should come back to Vietnam
14. When mom said we weren't spending the money to do that, he said he would get $1500 from his uncle to pay for me to come back
15. I said he must have a rich uncle, and Mom said that his uncle probably gets money from his son (Mr. PFM's cousin) who lives in America (because he married a half Vietnamese half Caucasian woman). Mom figures Mr. PFM must have discussed me with his cousin and that the cousin must have really wanted his cousin Mr. PFM to come to America with him and that's why he would agree to give $1500.
16. My mind is in the gutter and immediately though how this could be twisted into a dramatic story of gay cousins who fell in love when young and have been pining for one another over half the world ever since
17. I did confirm the cousin in America was male just for the specific purpose of thinking of it this way
Such a fantastic story. Only I guess if it were *actually* a fantastic story, instead of pretending the man who claims to love me is gay, I'd hop on a plane and make a dramatic and emotional journey to Vietnam to find him. And one of us might maybe try to make some effort to learn the other's language, I guess.
But it seems like our family is full of half-fantastic stories. Dad has his about grandpa finding gold while running a mail carrying dog sled team to escape the draft and making a pact with the few other men (one of them, of course, a WISE INDIAN GUIDE) not to tell anyone else and to return together someday, and then many years later after becoming a high school math teacher getting approached by the Indian man who said the others were dead and he too old now to go alone, but he has not been able to forget the gold and would granddad please come with him? ...Only granddad said no. No based-on-a-true-story Disney movie for us. :(
And then Mom has hers, apparently, about during the Vietnam war when a Vietnamese soldier who fought with her brother and cousin apparently fell in love with her at first sight and continually tried to talk to her but was never able to, then asked her brother to give him advice on what to say, and then spent countless nights rehearsing aloud in front of his fellow soldiers what the brother told him to say. Finally, he approached her after all his practice...and said nothing in particular. After he left, everyone asked her what happened and she told them, and they laughed at him mercilessly. I think it was clearly a good start to a big romantic war epic, especially with the way she was also being courted by American soldiers who would clearly give her a better way of life in general, but what about true love!? Especially since she can pretty much have her cake and eat it, too, since the life expectancy of those soldiers after they entered combat was about 20 seconds Dad says. She could have had a fraught beginning trying to decide against love and reason, had a passionate love affair, have the guy die tragically, and then marry an American guy and move to America always thinking of her real love. But noooo, she had to take the easy way out.
Tch.
1. After coming home from visiting family in Vietnam, I was altered that a 37 year old man (I'm 24) had fallen in love with me there after seeing me eating pho in a restaurant
2. He'd somehow gotten the number of my aunt who lives in America, and had been calling her relentlessly to set up a marriage
3. He does not speak English, and was informed I barley speak Vietnamese
4. But he kept calling anyway, asking to speak to me or my mother (who at least speaks Vietnamese)
5. Our family who knows him say he is a “hard worker”
Since then...
6. Mr. PFM has started calling my uncle who lives in America as well
7. He says he bought a cell phone for the specific purpose of doing this (mind, electronics in Vietnam seem to be EXTREMELY expensive. As in the price tag is about the same as here, maybe a little higher, but my uncle, for example, makes $5 a day doing manual labor)
8. He now visits my aunt's house (in Vietnam) every day to try to get in touch with me
9. He was in the house one time when my mom and I were on the phone with her, but mom refused to talk to him because she didn't “want to give him hope”
10. Turns out he's actually 39
11. And saw me buying sandwiches at his...aunt's sandwich stand? Not at eating pho in a restaurant
12. He wants to chat with me online.
13. To arguments that we have never actually interacted, he said I should come back to Vietnam
14. When mom said we weren't spending the money to do that, he said he would get $1500 from his uncle to pay for me to come back
15. I said he must have a rich uncle, and Mom said that his uncle probably gets money from his son (Mr. PFM's cousin) who lives in America (because he married a half Vietnamese half Caucasian woman). Mom figures Mr. PFM must have discussed me with his cousin and that the cousin must have really wanted his cousin Mr. PFM to come to America with him and that's why he would agree to give $1500.
16. My mind is in the gutter and immediately though how this could be twisted into a dramatic story of gay cousins who fell in love when young and have been pining for one another over half the world ever since
17. I did confirm the cousin in America was male just for the specific purpose of thinking of it this way
Such a fantastic story. Only I guess if it were *actually* a fantastic story, instead of pretending the man who claims to love me is gay, I'd hop on a plane and make a dramatic and emotional journey to Vietnam to find him. And one of us might maybe try to make some effort to learn the other's language, I guess.
But it seems like our family is full of half-fantastic stories. Dad has his about grandpa finding gold while running a mail carrying dog sled team to escape the draft and making a pact with the few other men (one of them, of course, a WISE INDIAN GUIDE) not to tell anyone else and to return together someday, and then many years later after becoming a high school math teacher getting approached by the Indian man who said the others were dead and he too old now to go alone, but he has not been able to forget the gold and would granddad please come with him? ...Only granddad said no. No based-on-a-true-story Disney movie for us. :(
And then Mom has hers, apparently, about during the Vietnam war when a Vietnamese soldier who fought with her brother and cousin apparently fell in love with her at first sight and continually tried to talk to her but was never able to, then asked her brother to give him advice on what to say, and then spent countless nights rehearsing aloud in front of his fellow soldiers what the brother told him to say. Finally, he approached her after all his practice...and said nothing in particular. After he left, everyone asked her what happened and she told them, and they laughed at him mercilessly. I think it was clearly a good start to a big romantic war epic, especially with the way she was also being courted by American soldiers who would clearly give her a better way of life in general, but what about true love!? Especially since she can pretty much have her cake and eat it, too, since the life expectancy of those soldiers after they entered combat was about 20 seconds Dad says. She could have had a fraught beginning trying to decide against love and reason, had a passionate love affair, have the guy die tragically, and then marry an American guy and move to America always thinking of her real love. But noooo, she had to take the easy way out.
Tch.