#anyway im feeling UNEXPECTEDLY CONNECTED TO BEING CHINESE IN THIS CHILIS TONIGHT GUYS

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suddenly gripped by the need to blog about the experience i just had ok. im watching youtube, i get a phone call from an unknown number, i pick up. its some chinese uncle type calling his doctor, and im like, pulling formal phone-answering chinese out of my ASS (like i have not said "请问这是哪位?" in like, the last FIVE YEARS probably, tbh i probably only know this from listening to my mom answer the phone as a kid) and telling him he maybe has the wrong number, and then he hangs up and texts me to apologize and im like (paraphrased and translated:) genuinely nbd my dude ive been there, since im an abc its actually really nice to have a chance to speak to someone in chinese. and then he !!!! texts back asking if i wanna chat some more and i say yes omg and then we just have an extremely pleasant convo in mandarin for like 10min about where our families are from and daylight savings time!!!! he kept saying how fateful (he said and i quote "缘分") it was that the number he mis-saved in his contact happened to be a person's number and not a 空号 (meanwhile im internally like: the more fateful thing to me is that the person on the other line also spoke mandarin) but like wahhhhhhhhhh truly so!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! truly so!!!!!!