"Hey, I've been meaning to ask you-What's that thing you have stuck on there?"
A female student, stuffing a piece of buldak kimbap in her mouth, questioned.
"Is it the food truck's motto? Or yours, oppa?"
"Don't call the store owner 'oppa!' Have some respect! I apologize for my daughter, sir."
"Please. I call all handsome men oppa. And maybe you just came here for the first time today, Mom, but I'm a regular. Oppa and I are very close."
The mother, embarrassed by her daughter's shamelessness, smiled awkwardly as she met San's eyes. He was busy gathering bite-sized pieces of bulgogi kimbap into a bowl,
San:
"It's something the owner of some snack stall told me three years or so ago when I was worried that my dreams might not come true. Dreams are fine and all, but there are many other, more important things in life."
"Likesharing love, eating together and cleaning up your own mess."
As if pondering the meaning of what San just said, the female student read the memo aloud, For the first time in a long while, San also looked at the old memo posted on the inside wall of his food truck. It was the first thing he stuck to its inner walls after buying the used truck three years ago, when the members, one by one, had started moving on their own paths. He started this food truck wanting to know if-like the owner of that stall said-a life outside of one's dreams was worth living.
"So running a food truck like this wasn't your dream?"
The female student asked.
San:
"If I'm being honest, no it wasn't. Not really."
"Does that make you sad? That you're doing something other than your dream?"
The girl's mother tried to interject, but San just laughed, saying it was okay.
San:
"No, I like it. Of course, there are still times I miss those moments..."
The girl spoke loudly as if to tell her mother to listen.
"See! So you can live happily without achieving your dreams! My mom always says you have to achieve your dreams, that a life without achieving your dreams is a life wasted, and so I have to study! Always study, study, study. Her nagging drives me crazy."
"Enough, stop eating, and go to your after-school classes! Sorry for all the trouble, sir.
The food was great!"
The mother, no longer able to hold back and wary of the ongoing conversation, finally stood up and urged her
daughter away, San watched as the female student stuffed her cheeks full of the remaining kimbap, still chewing it as
her mother dragged her away. He smiled.
San:
"I used to think that, too."
A new customer approached, and San greeted them with a friendly face. Seeing the expectant faces of hungry
customers as they ordered, making food he hoped they'd enjoy, and watching them eat until they were full and
happy-There's a kind of happiness in this, too, San thought.
Meanwhile, a plane bound for Incheon was getting ready to take off in Dubai Wooyoung, a second-year flight attendant, was busy preparing the special safety announcement he had put together for K Airlines. The airline, concerned that passengers weren't paying enough attention to the flight attendants' in-flight safety announcement, planned a new event based on an idea of Woo Young's in place of the usual simple demonstration.
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