While I was selecting paint tubes with Tina yesterday, the saleslady asked me casually if I were Chinese. I replied that my grandfather on my father's side had Chinese blood. (My grandfather on my mother's side was pure Portuguese; my grandmother on my mother's side, Spanish.) Later I whispered to Tina that it is always a good sign whenever a saleslady asks me if I am Chinese--it means that I will get a hefty discount. Tina (who is South Korean and married to a pure Chinese) countered that, whenever salesladies asked HER if she were Chinese, it meant that she would get charged higher prices. Bwahahahahahahaha!