Ah, intercultural marriage....
- Last week via email from me to M:
"Please remember to put money in the baby's daycare cubby. Another parent is going to collect it all and buy end of the year teacher's gifts. Cubbies are those long racks of stacked boxes where we leave all of the baby's stuff."
- Later that night:
Me: "Did you remember the money at daycare?"
M: "Yeah." ........ "And by the way I already knew what cubby meant."
- Last night while searching for inspiration for a blog post,
Me: "What are some of the things I had to explain to you recently? Like cultural stuff you didn't know?"
M: (blank stare)
Me: "Like 'dead ringer'? Remember? The other night, when you asked me what dead ringer meant? It was in your magazine? Some chair was a dead ringer for some other woodworker's whatever?"
M: (finally some recollection)
Me: "I'm trying to put together a post for the website. I want a couple of examples, can you think of any more?"
M: "Hmm.....what about the thing where [coworker] gave the waiter money to get a better table at the restaurant?"
Me: "Perfect! That makes three, which is a nice round number!"
M: "What's the other one?"
Me: "Hmm? Oh - the daycare cubby thing from yesterday."
M: "Daycare cubby? I already knew what a daycare cubby was. His teachers say cubby all the time. I drop him off every day! Where did you think I was leaving his jacket every day?!"
- This morning, after perusing the internet,
7 comments:
heehee... :) poor M. you picking on him like that ;)
loved this post. I am full of what things mean.
this is kind of interesting dead ringer
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_origin_of_the_phrase_dead_ringer
Like the words in western countries where they held "wakes".
THis is rumoured to have come from when people eat and drank from pewter. Over long periods this can poison you. So they usd to lay them out in the kitchen to see if they would wake up.
I know I am a nerd.
Loving the blog by the way!
It's usually my husband explaining things to me. Like "Who is maasi musibati?" Probably be the other way around when we go to the States.
My brother in law does not understand what 'as if' means. His ghori wife has tried to explain it to him for years, and we are still not convinced that he actually understands it. It's because in Pakistan there's a few millions men/boys named Asif !! lol. I LOVE THIS!
im waiting for your next post!!
Oh this was too funny!
hee hee
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