Chinese Stuff Just Doesn't Work As Well
This could be the title not just of a blog post but of an entire blog. Don't get me wrong, they make great stuff in China. Much of the stuff you enjoy and works well in America was made in China. There is a BIG difference between the stuff that is made in China vs. the stuff that is made in China and SOLD in China. It is rubbish, almost all of it. Instead of giving example after example I will simply give you one. On Halloween night we went to TGIFridays for dinner. Unbeknownst to us they were having a Halloween party - the place was packed. It was a lot of fun too; kids dressed up in costumes, waitresses being even more festive than the usual TGIFridays waitress, and some nice young girls painting faces. No child can resist a good face painting and we saw no harm in it (especially because it was free), so the kids got painted up. Keegan was Spiderman, Reese was a skeleton, Kaylynn was a glittery princess, and Carson, well we're not real sure what Carson was. Anyway, the kids loved it! The TGIF staff loved it even more than the kids did, and they proceeded to take picture after picture of our kids making rock star and skeleton faces for the camera.
The fun continued as we got some of the most confused looks from strangers on the buses on the way home. We usually get stares just because we are foreigners, but now we have kids with crazily painted faces (most Chinese people would have had no idea that October 31st is Halloween in other parts of the world). The fun wore off very quickly when we got home. It was time for bed and the face paint had to come off - except it didn't. The picture below is Keegan's face after about a dozen wet wipes of hard scrubbing. It took a full on hot bath with more hot soapy rag scrubbing to get their faces looking semi-normal again. The boys looked like Robert Smith or Adam Lambert for another 3 days but I don't think there was any permanent damage done. I have no idea what they used to paint the kids' faces, I just know that next time our kids have the option of getting their faces painted in China we will probably say, "no thanks."
The fun continued as we got some of the most confused looks from strangers on the buses on the way home. We usually get stares just because we are foreigners, but now we have kids with crazily painted faces (most Chinese people would have had no idea that October 31st is Halloween in other parts of the world). The fun wore off very quickly when we got home. It was time for bed and the face paint had to come off - except it didn't. The picture below is Keegan's face after about a dozen wet wipes of hard scrubbing. It took a full on hot bath with more hot soapy rag scrubbing to get their faces looking semi-normal again. The boys looked like Robert Smith or Adam Lambert for another 3 days but I don't think there was any permanent damage done. I have no idea what they used to paint the kids' faces, I just know that next time our kids have the option of getting their faces painted in China we will probably say, "no thanks."
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