Who taught : Andrew

One of the interesting scenes I have seen in America during the last 4 years is that women ride a bike wearing skirt. I had never seen that in Korea.

There is a street called, S. Negley Ave, in Pittsburgh. One part of the street is pretty steep so that it is even hard to walk up. Every time it snows, the road is closed. The other day, I was driving up the street to go to my house and saw a very bizarre thing. One woman was lying on the street besides her bike. Of course her bike was fell on the street too. As I was getting closer, I realized that the woman was wearing skirt. So, what happened was she was trying to bike up the street and fell down. What is really amazing was that she made almost half way up the street and she looked like she is in her 40s or 50s.

Here is my thoughts about riding a bike wearing skirt. First, it looks kind of dangerous, especially with a tight skirt. Second, I would be worrying about showing my underwear to other people, especially to guys. So, I am not sure why would you want to even try to ride a bike with skirt in the first place.

Other ladies in other countries also do the same thing except Korea. (I know Korean women would not even think about it.)

A few weeks ago, I was at a bar with Andrew to have dinner. Of course, I was supposed to let Jessy know so that she would not prepare my dinner. (She is pretty strict about that. I have to let her know. 🙂 ) So, I sent a text message to her, “I am at a bar with Andrew.” A few minutes later, I got the reply from her, “You are a bar animal.” It was pretty interesting one. I mean I could easily understand what she meant because I knew that she made that one up from the expression, “party animal”,  but wanted to get Andrew’s opinion. Before I get into his opinion, do you know the expression, party animal? Simply, it is you. (I am kidding.) So, a party in America means any kind of social gathering happening at someone’s house or some specific venue hosted by someone. For example, if I invite my friends to my house and have dinner together, that is a party. Or, if my company hosts a Christmas event, that is a party. Then, if you go to those events almost all the time, then you are a party animal. I am not sure why people started to use the word, “animal”, here. But, it gives, I think, a very strong feeling of being instinctive. What do you think?

Bar Rat (Source: movieforums.com)

Going back to Andrew’s opinion! So, I showed the text came from Jessy to Andrew. He also understood what it meant but he said, “It should be bar rat not bar animal.”

Interestingly, when it comes to bar, it becomes a lot more specific animal, rat. Why? My guess is that people think there are a lot of rats in bars and if anyone is going to bar all the time, he/she becomes the part of the rat family over there. (Are there really a lot of rats in bars?) Speaking of it, I think it is probably not a good idea to go to bars too many times. Rats are there… Not just RAT rats but RAT people!