'I'm Crazy About Your Street Noodle Factory'

Lorenz: Joe often took long walks when the rest of us were visiting points of cultural interest. At supper he would tell us how he drank tea with old men, a condition he liked to consider himself a member of. He had taken a ferry ride with noisy Chinese families to the other side of the river. There, in an outlying district, two old people showed him how to dispose of a banana peel. Some of our people with poor character structures were jealous of his adventures. They'd been a little ashamed of their timidity when he spoke but now that he was being spoken too, they were proud of their group discipline.