It's as easy as ABC

Today I noticed a couple of curious things. The first being that though chinese uses characters not letters, letters do crop up in things like addresses and so on and causes problems like the conversation below which I had when ordering takeout:
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"Flat 15B"
"15B? Which B?"
"What do you mean, which B? B!"
"The B in ABC?"
"Yes, the B in ABC!!"

That's not as stupid a question as it seems as I later discovered there are at least a dozen characters also pronounced 'B', though that I'm not likely to have 'Flat 15逼’ ('Flat 15-coercion') or 'Flat 15鲾' ('Flat 15-obscure-type-of-fish') in my address perhaps should be taken into account here.

The second was a TV advert for an english course, illustrating the enormous stress chinese kids are put under by the emphasis on tests and exams in China. The course claimed:
"Your child will learn all the important skills of English - Reading, Writing, Speaking, Examinations". Listening has obviously been superceded in the modern age.

Will be posting about my experiences as a film star just as soon as I get the pics from the TV station!