GROPE MUCH?

Blog number 379 **** 19 March 2009

The author writing this book I am reading is traveling around China at the moment visiting the numerous factories being built around China. He's interviewing a guy at factory that makes rings and stays for women's brassieres.

The guy explains, "It helps women dress more beautifully. We have different sizes, too. Some are small and some are big. Some are really big." He gestured with his hands, forming the shape of an object roughly the size of a basketball. I couldn't imagine he was still talking about bras, so I figured those wires must have a different function.

"The ones that are that big," I asked, "what are they used for?"

"For Russians," he said.