Sometimes, it's not always an adventure

The thing with these types of trips is people make it sound like they're constantly having an adventure.  As if they were having some crazy experience every minute.  It's definitely not like that though, at least for me.  Maybe I'm doing something wrong though.  But I do think it's a good thing...if you were having an adventure every single minute, than none of it would be an adventure, would it?  It would just be normal.  You need to have boring times along with the good, so that way, when you do have a crazy experience, it stands out.

Last night was a perfect example.  I went out to a bar very close to my house, hoping for an adventure.  There wasn't one.  I just sat there and had a beer or two and talked to the bartenders in English.  Their English was surprisingly good but, nonetheless, still not good enough for decent conversation other than "How old are you?" and "What are you hobbies?"  Mostly I just watched TV.  Apocalyptico was on, which had English subtitles of course, and that's the type of movie you can be vaguely entertained by when you're at a bar.  Then some movie came on where this pimply guy (he seriously had zits on his forehead even though he was in his 40s) who has this hot blond wife (who's cheating on him, but he cheated on her as well with some middle-aged lady), and they go to some Asian country and after he gets ice during their romantic evening he comes back to the room to find blood on the bed and his wife gone, and then he gets knocked out.  The room is immaculate afterwards and when he talks to the detective, they don't seemt o believe him (of course there were no English subtitles and no volume so I'm just guessing). 

None of the Koreans other than the bartender seemed to want to make conversation.  There was a white guy and girl (maybe a couple) that came into the bar, and though I thought about running up to them and saying "Hey whities!" I decided against it.  There's just too many foreigners in Seoul.  When I was going home from the bar I actually ran into another white guy, who had the same jacket as I did (it was one I bought in Korea), but again, it's not that big of a deal to run into a white person here.  In another town you would've immediately stopped and chatted and become good ol' pals but not here.