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September 29, 2006

Note to self: keep business cards to yourself

I should have learned this lesson years ago, when I gave my business card to some girl I wanted to help me learn Chinese. She took my kind invite as an excuse to think that I was going to marry her ( I swear I told her all I wanted was a Chinese friend, and that I had a girlfriend) and decided to come and look for me, walking around my old company's office not once but twice in an effort to give me really strange peppers. Then, she followed me home and I had to run away from her so I could meet my real girlfriend's parents for dinner.

Then, last week I went to the trade fair I wrote about earlier. People left and right coming up to me, asking for my business cards that I simply didn't think twice about giving it to them. Big mistake, as now my inbox gets about 10 emails a day saying, "So nice meet you Mr. Dale, I hope we can make long friends in future, equally business for profit." I systematically have been deleting these things, but today, I thought that I had to publish just one of the last parts from yet another factory in ZheJiang.

"So nice to come meet factory I think. Touch you soon!"

I do hope that he means, "I'll get in touch with you soon"

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