Why I don’t eat lunch with my students in China
- - in most cases, hehe

I gotta put a disclaimer in here – in that yes, I’m talking mostly dancing monkey ESL, but it applies to other students as well – fitness included.

And the other disclaimer is, for whatever reason, they’ve all been mostly rather attractive Chinese ladies (who I genuinely liked, or I wouldn’t have done it in the first place) – and / or beer drinking Chinese dudes who I got along with great.

Like a house on fire, as my father once said about the first meeting between Jim my old boss and myself, hehe (when he asked me, that was what he “interjected with”).

But anyway, these lunches.

I did have a lot of them …. but I did it with only THOSE people that I got a good vibe from, and that vibe came back to me manifold (especially in the case of a certain Carol …)

But anyway, the reason I do not generally do it is something I often tutored the Bozos and wack jobs that think “we’re really important for them to be doing it to us about”.

(and Carol – in fact even her – I remember her sitting there RADIANT in a red dress, and literally begging me to eat lunch at a fancy place (mentally) – and all yours truly could think about was running home to his pad and his “less than a dollar” delivery, cold beer, and some peace, hehe).

(By itself a lesson on attraction there i.e. what you chase often times…)

But anyway, she chased RIGHT. Hehe. Nothing if not SMART to a T she was, one of the few women I’ve actually enjoyed “doing battle” with in terms of the MIND.

And anyway, most of these silly lunches etc, especially if you’re talking dancing monkey “jobs” – is to get more for FREE out of you.

Free English practice that the rest of us smart folks charge a TON FOR.

Much like any other service (except for some reason a lot of bozos think that “foreign devil should teach us for free because he learned English for free”).

HA!

x 10.

I still remember dude in Walmart asking me “why I charged a bomb for my services”.

I told him.

“But you learn English anyway, so why not teach us for free too!”

True story my friend.

And this jackass didnt even know that no, I did NOT learn it for free, hehe.

Such is life as a chameleon!

But you gotta back it up.

Fitness wise, same thing.

Oh, it’s just handstand pushups! Why should we pay?

OK, don’t.

But I wanna learn!

OK, then pay up.

Too expensive! It’s just exercise! I can find this for free!

Then do it yourself . Find it for free!

OK! Hmmph!

CAN you do it yourslf though?

DID Google help you?

……

I dont think so, bro, or you wouldn’t be here …

(just a sample convo the above).

And so forth.

And back to lunches – I was never a sucka to be mooched off, but hey. If I liked the girls, I often went, but for reasons other than “lunch” if you get my drift. :LOL.

But even my wife told me …

“Sure, they’re getting free English practice, but you’re getting a damn good lunch too. So just go!”

Um.

Well, first off, the prospect of a damn good lunch with even sexier BEER didn’t appeal to me – I had that at home. Hehe.

Second, they were getting way more than free English practice.

“Face time” with a foreign devil, learning how I do things in life in general – – and of course, it was an excuse for THEM to go out and eat too. Which they were looking for!

And that, my friends, is why I rarely, if ever indulged such requests.

Carol and Grace – and the great “Giraffe” (who on another site I named a school after, hehe) were the three I can remember doing it for, all for reasons other than everything above.

They were and are good people …

Other than that?

No way, Jose.

Regardless of “how much they liked me” or “said they’d pay me later”.

If you wanna learn, you pay the tab my friend. ‘Tis just that simple.

And same thing for fitness, obviously.

Ain’t nothing free in life, as Alonzo said – and curiously enough those that do manage to get something for free – NEVER do anything with it and don’t value it.

Case in point being the two people that got my book (one of them) for damn near free and never botehred to read them.

Another idiot that claimed she’d “review” the book and never did …

Anyway, that was when I first started out in business, had no-one to mentor me, so I made these mistakes.

I even priced my products LOW to “help”.

BIG, BIG mistake – as I instantly attracted Jackasses and Bozos.

years later, and many mistakes later, here I am, sitting on top of the heap “pretty”.

And there, I believe ends this brain “dump”.

Lesson to be learnt?

If you’re going to be cheap, at least be smart and CLASSY about it, heheh.

Best,

Rahul Mookerjee

PS – On another note, remember the classy Rolls Royce of Fitness waiting out there for you …

Truly SHINING!

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