Various experiences

One of the many ripoffs I was on the receiving end of was at a Chinese restaurant that I went to regularly to have 3-4 dishes, including their heavenly beef dumplings. A man came and refused to bring my food until I paid an extra 20 RMB. I didn't understand why and refused, actually speaking Chinese to him (very basic but Chinese nonetheless) and he was speaking ridiculously fast in Shanghainese, a truly horrible-sounding dialect. Every time I asked him to speak slower he just got angrier and spoke faster (this is a regular thing in China I think, my slowness seemed to frustrate many people). Eventually I repented, and he proceeded to laugh at me for the entirety of my (huge) meal because of my uselessness with chopsticks.
When I casually pointed out to my Chinese teacher that I thought the locals were a little rude, she immediately decided that I had a low opinion of all Chinese and that I was a racist (this is not so, I just got very frustrated with locals and Shanghai is a particularly rude place). My Chinese at the time was starting to really improve because my conversations with taxi drivers were getting longer and deeper. One of them even decided that we were good enough friends for him to stop the taxi to go and have a pee, which to be honest I took as a compliment.
We got ourselves committed to haring a hash run in a city called Hangzhou, so had to go there for reconnaissance. Things started off great when Dad's flight back to Shanghai from a place called Chengdu was cancelled, causing us to wait until the next evening to go down. This next episode is known as the Hangzhou Hassle.