How,Survive,Chinese,Internet,C travel,insurance How to Survive a Chinese Internet Café

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He will be playing World of Warcraft withheadphones covering his ears and a cigarette dangling from his lips and he willonly pay attention to you if you make it clear to him that he will no longer enjoyhis game until he has taken care of you. This will not make him happy, butlet's face it—who cares?Now he will mumble something in Chinese in such a way thatyou have no chance of understanding it even if you do know the language. He'llkeep repeating it, despite it being  perfectly obvious you have no idea what he'ssaying. What he wants is your passport and don't despair, he knows the Englishword—they all do. He won't use it though, expecting you to give up so he canget back to his game. Don't let him, just keep harassing him and eventuallyhe'll come to realize that the easiest way to get rid of you is to actually dohis job.If this is your first time in a Wang Ba, you won't have yourpassport with you, which means you'll have to leave to get it and return laterto ruin this poor kid's day all over again. On the one hand it's a little annoying;on the other hand it's also kind of fun.Once he has your passport, he'll take down your information,then issue you a card with a name and password on it. Now someone will guideyou to your seat—right in the middle of a group Chinese teenagers who will allbe playing some game while chain smoking and taking trash at about the samevolume as a stereotypical football coach chewing out his players. Don't acceptthis seat assignment.If you look around, you'll notice that most of the place isfairly empty. Just motion for your usher to follow you and choose your ownseat. This way you'll get up to five minutes of only having to breathe in thegeneral smoky air of the place rather than finding yourself in the middle of athicker cloud within the general cloud. Usually it's less than 5 min, becausethe next person that comes will sit directly next to you (and if you've chosena seat in the middle of an aisle instead of on the side, the next person willsit on your other side).When you take your seat, you'll want to enter the informationfrom the card, press enter and ignore the Chinese message that pops up. It justsays that the information you entered is incorrect. That's because the card thekid gave you at the desk doesn't work, so you'll take it back to him and try toget a new one. He'll ignore you as long as you let him, then he'll tell youneed to be talking to one of the ushers, not to him. When you try this, theusher will tell you to talk to the kid at the desk.They will continue to pass you around until you once againmake it clear to one of them that they will know no peace until they've helpedyou. At this point you're probably thinking "But I don't want them to hateme…" Well, don't worry. Unless you're Chinese, they already hate you.Armed with your new card, you return to your seat and log on and enjoy theremaining minute or two before your neighbor shows up and plops themselves intotheir chair with as much drama as possible, invariably bumping your seatfifteen times in the process.As soon as their ass hits the chair, they will light up acigarette, blow the smoke in your direction and hold the cigarette pretty muchdirectly under your nose. Then he (or she) will spend a minute or so gatheringall the phlegm in their throat and once their throat is clear, they will reachdeeper and gather their stomach lining and then the first foot or two of theirintestine. They will form this into a large ball of varying shades of yellow,green and brown and hack the whole thing onto your shoes. Then they will take acouple of drags off their smoke and start working on the next ball of phlegm.At this point all that's left for you to do is enjoy surfingthe web. Obviously most of the websites you're used to will be blocked, butthere are plenty of wonderful, government approved sites for your enjoyment.Plus, you can sit there for hours and still end up paying less than a dollar,so you will leave with your wallet intact. You will also leave with a computervirus or two, SARS and stage three lung cancer. Just FYI: most McDonald's havefree Wi-Fi and no-smoking areas.