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A restaurant had a sell. If you buy a fried chichen, you will get a cup of orange juice for free. I sat on a round seat eating alone. A middle-aged woman came in and asked me whether its an orange juice or a mandarine juice. The second I was about to talk to her, the waitress shooed her. She asked me are you going to drink it? I pushed the orange juice towards her. She got it quickly. Then I gave her my drinking straw. She had gone a few steps away and she came back to take the drinking straw. The waitress kept shooing her, so she disappeared at the corner. I continued eating, while the waitresses were talking about that woman. I was a fly on the wall, then I knew that she even came in and asked the customers not to eat and to give their food to her. I don't know why but I don't feel like I hate her that much. I was just surprised by her longing to live. She didn't feel ashamed to ask for food though she was healthy and could work. I associated her with a flaneur, an idler. I looked at the large container full of orange juice, with obvious artificial coloring, very bright and dense. Suddenly I thought we were all bad. I gave the juice to the woman partly because I didn't want to drink the juice. Besides I am always avoiding conflict so I conceded the juice to the woman. The woman didn't work nor say thanks. The waitresses were impolite and rude towards that woman. I have forgotten those unnamed faces, however, the bright yellow color is right in front of my eyes.
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I think I liked best the use of 'shooed'. I've never heard a non-native speaker use 'shooed'
In the first use
I think I would have said ' the waitress tried to shoo her out' but your version is correct too because she didn't actually shoo her completely out. The other use is good:
The waitress kept shooing her,...The details are great.
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A restaurant had a sell sale. If you buy a fried chichen,fried chicken (no "a" in front of fried chicken... unless buy one whole chicken) you will get (it's correct to say "will get" but most people would just say "get") a cup of orange juice for free. I sat on a round seat eating alone. A middle-aged woman came in and asked me whether it's (short for it is) an orange juice or a mandarine juice. The second I was about to talk to her, the waitress shooed her. She The woman asked me are you going to drink it? I pushed the orange juice towards her. She got it quickly. Then I gave her my drinking straw. She had gone a few steps away and she came back to take the drinking straw. The waitress kept shooing her, so she disappeared at around the corner. I continued eating, while the waitresses were talking about that woman. I was a fly on the wall, then I knew that she even came in and asked the customers not to eat and to give their food to her. I don't know why but I don't feel like I hate her that much. I was just surprised by her longing to live. She didn't feel ashamed to ask for food though she was healthy and could work. I associated her with a flaneur (I don't know this word), an idler. I looked at the large container full of orange juice, with obvious artificial coloring, very bright and dense. Suddenly I thought we were all bad. I gave the juice to the woman partly because I didn't want to drink the juice. Besides I am always avoiding conflict so I conceded the juice to the woman. The woman didn't work nor say thanks. The waitresses were impolite and rude towards that woman. I have forgotten those unnamed faces, however, the bright yellow color is right in front of my eyes.-----------------
This is a great story, thanks for sharing!
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