A friend of mine recommended a dance class for Babes. The class is pretty cute, there are 10 or so little girls, all dressed up in their tutus, following the teacher. It's not an intense ballet class or anything, there's 45 minutes of pretty intense stretching, then a break and thirty or so minutes of dancing. All of the girls look to be somewhere between 3 and 5. Oh they are so cute! Anyway, yesterday there was some sort of extra class to make up for a class that they missed so we parents brought our kids up to the studio in the day instead of at night. I missed what started the fight, but all of a sudden there were two middle aged Chinese ladies screaming at each other at the top of their lungs. After maybe a minute or two there were five more Chinese ladies, and another minute later and all the moms (and grandmoms) waiting for their little girls were screaming at the tops of their respective lungs! People were coming from down the hall, around the corner, all of a sudden there were grown men in on the screaming. I don't know if they switched to Sichuan dialect or if they were screaming obscenities at each other but I didn't understand a single word of it. I only know that there was a little pushing, a lot of finger waving, and I expected the slapping to start at any minute (it didn't).
But this brings me back to the whole China is a powder keg.... Any little thing, and I mean little, can start people off on the yelling and screaming (often fighting too). I'm out a little more than I used to be, but I used to see fights on the streets all the time. Over train seats, over prices, I'm fairly sure the dance class fight was over a bump (someone bumped into a chair) or some other such nonsense. Even here in laid back Sichuan people are ready to fight.
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