Eric's Beijing Diary

McDonald's Restaurant, Wangfujing Street. Shoppers rushing in and out. Christmas music playing in the background. Cold winter air sneaking in through the opening and closing door. Somehow, it reminds me of another McDonald's Restaurant from one of my past lives. It was fifteen years ago, and I was a truck driver, sitting at a McDonald's in Chicago, gazing out the window at the snow flurries, and wondering how I was going to make it home for Christmas. Shoppers rushing in and out. Christmas music playing in the background. Cold winter air sneaking in through the opening and closing door...funny how one place can remind you of another for reasons which seem trivial and insignificant.