Cultural differences..

Yesterday i was walking home with Sara Wallen after work and we decide to stop in a supermarket to buy some breakfast for today. We pick up some yoghurt, milk , coffe and then i really wanted some fruit in my yoghurt and i tear 2 bananas of a pile of maybe 15 bananas.
We come to the register, everything is going well until the woman freaks a little bit out because of my 2 bananas.
I get all stressed as she keeps pointing to the pile and trying to communicate something to me in Chinese that i did something wrong.Then Sara informs me that apparently here in China, you have to buy the whole stack of bananas.
You cannot just want one banana or two.... NO ... Here it's about quantity.
So i feel a bit embarrassed and return the 2 bananas to the stack , as i had no need for 15 bananas last night nor today.
Then it's the beauty of street markets, there i could go for 3 bananas instead of 15.
I slept on the hardest bed I've ever tried in my life last night.
It actually wasn't as bad as i thought waking up in the morning on that wooden board with a blanket over it.
Maybe us Westerners have it all wrong and are ruining our backs with too soft beds?

I'm researching on the fashion industry today , and on a apartment hunt as me and Camilla decided to look for something else then we have already found.
I'm also going to try to find a good acupuncturist here in Shanghai , as i belive it could help me quit smoking, and balance the CHI (life-force) in my body:) SO it's a little bit of this and that for my afternoon agenda, i'll be posting more later on.
kys fra Kina