Oh dear, here we go...
Going to London almost always results in something weird happening to me. One day I was wearing a white dress and the skin of my human body is also very bright. On the way to Westminster Abbey, a woman stared at me like she had never seen a goddess of the dead travelling by bus, and exclaimed totally out of nowhere: "OMG, you're SO white!" ... Riiight. I'm sure if I said to a dark-skinned person with black clothes: "OMG, you're SO black!", it would be considered racist. But that's not even the whole story. On the way back, same bus route, a Turkish-looking woman, complete with an Islamic headscarf, positioned herself in the middle of the bus and started talking about Jesus Christ and the holy Bible and how we should all become Christians. That was a rather unique sight.
About ten years ago, once again on vacation and this time in Bavaria, Germany, I was sitting on a bench by a lake and working on one of my novels when a middle-aged Arab sat down next to me. He said something I couldn't understand because of his bad English, then he said it again, but I still didn't understand and just said "Yes", hoping he would leave me alone... until I realised I had just agreed to massage his knee. I've never been to the Middle East and don't know anyone from there, but is it normal for Arabic men to creep up on strangers and ask them to massage a part of their body?
Then there's that new Japanese fetish that creeps me out: Teenagers licking each other's eyeballs for... I don't know, sexual pleasure? A token of love? Ugh.
