China makes me smile

Five years in and there are still random sights that make me smile and giggle.  And make me so happy I made the decision to move across the ocean.

Random laundry.  Drying in random locations.  This particular set of clothes was drying next to the main market street just outside our campus.  Somebody has some nice fuzzy pink pajamas.

Speaking of pajamas, I love the fact that said clothing item is appropriate indoor attire regardless of the time of day…and appropriate outdoor attire when running a quick errand.  Apparently, some in China view such uses of pajamas as inappropriate.  I found the following article about Shanghai’s attempt to banish pajama clad folks from the streets of the current World Expo host absolutely delightful.  First of all, I love the fact that people do live their lives–indoors and outdoors–in pajamas.  Secondly, I love the fact that some higher up official hatched the idea to put the kibosh on this perhaps strange, but also charming behavior.  Forcing people to stand in lines for the Olympics?  That’s understandable.  Sending granny home to put on “real clothes”?  That just seems wrong.