Think I can't understand you? Thanks for the seat!
For background: My degree was in Mandarin and I’d learned it for 5 years by the time of this revenge. Unless you look Asian, most Chinese people never expect that you could speak Mandarin, as was the case on this particular day.
This happened a few years ago as I was on the plane waiting for it to take off.
It was a big plane with the 3 - 4 - 3 seat structure, and I was sat in the right-middle seat of the central section. I’d been sat there for about 20 minutes and nobody had sat down by me yet, so I was getting excited that I would be able to have the row to myself. Sadly it was not to be. A team of Chinese university basketball players get on the plane wearing identical tracksuits and one of them sits by me. Oh well, my 4 seat dream is gone but never mind.
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