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“Won’t anyone steal the cows?”
I chat with a blind massage therapist in Siping.
11/01/2016
Ruth Silbermayr
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I go to a massage place in Siping in January 2016 and chat with the blind massage therapist. We talk about cows in Austria and in China.
I tell him what I have observed: “The cows here are really slim.”
He replies: “They are, are cows in Austria bigger?”
I answer: “They are. They have a lot more meat on their bones and often live on mountains. They graze there all day long.”
He asks, surprised: “All on their own? Won’t anybody steal them if they just graze there?”
I tell him: “Not as far as I know, no.”
He looks incredulous at the fact that people don’t steal cows in Austria.
Have you ever heard about people stealing cows?
This is part of the series ‘Conversations with Locals in China,’ where I share conversations with Chinese people on my blog.