Asians gone bad

We were up in Lion’s Head this morning breakfasting at Marydales. The FM had a breakfast wrap and I had the “really hungry” breakfast special, meaning three eggs and you don’t have to choose between ham, bacon, and sausages; you get all of them!

We like to take the back road up, the one that goes through Barrow Bay. Just south if there we encountered a gaggle of trials bikers. That’s a peculiar sort of motorcycle racing in which the objective seems to be to stand on the pegs and go as slow as you can. I was tempted to stop and ask a few questions, but I was hungry.

Breakfast was great, except for the crappy deep-fried potato cubes, but the dogs like them, so it’s more or less a wash. But what really got our attention was the extended Asian family that had commandeered the middle of the room; four adults and a gang of brats ranging in age from maybe three to about ten.

While I don’t like to indulge stereotypes, my experience with Asian families is that their kids are generally well-behaved. Not this lot! The little hooligans were running about the place with the obnoxious precociousness one typically associates with spoiled middle-class white kids.

Then we figured out the problem. One of the adults was not like the others – he was a white dude. For the duration of our visit he never once took his eyes off his phone. He was oblivious to the mayhem around himHe never interacted with anyone. He ate with one hand while holding his phone in the other.

Obviously, one of the women in that extended family had made a terrible mistake. Now the entire clan is threatened by cultural assimilation. Let’s just hope they come to their senses. Someday they may just leave phone dude in a restaurant somewhere and go home without him.

He won’t notice, and they’ll be the better for it.