I measured some windows at a school where immigrants learn the English language. The woman who was in charge could barely speak English (as hard as it may be for me, I'll leave that one alone and just say the word IRONY) and at one point it got a little hairy. If you are going to get hostile with me, you need to know English. Otherwise, I can't insult you to the point that I find satisfactory.
Short version: I'm telling this chick I need a CD with the graphics, a check and to know which windows to measure. She narrows her eyes and tells me I don't have a voice. There was about 20 minutes of us going back and forth with me trying to explain that she was listening to my voice and asking her what the fuck that has to do with anything. Then she starts in with paperwork and I realize, oh, invoice. 20 more minutes of me explaining the difference between "INvoice" and "voice". Needless to say, I probably won't be allowed back there.
The long version is super insulting and considering how fucking liberal everyone is and how gung ho we are supposed to be about equality or whatever, I'll probably just end up with a shitload of enemies were I to tell it.
All I'm saying is that if you are going to throw all kinds of attitude and try to be the all mighty powerful vagina, you might want to be able to speak the language of the person you are trying to intimidate.
On a different note, I am still able to entertain myself in gridlock traffic. I see this as a good sign. A friend visited from AZ and was horrified by the traffic and asked how I did it with a smile. I figure it comes with the territory. If you don't want to sit in obscene traffic, don't move to a major city where people are quite literally piled on top of one another. Anyway, today I figured out that I can turn my voice note recordings into ring tones. My new ring tone is off NPR and has people talking about medicinal marijuana and how they are trying to legalize pot. Funny and appropriate. I do regret not getting the dude from KY going on about the fact that you never hear about anyone overdosing on marijuana. Just awesome. Maybe next time...
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
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