The first:
My cutie Pakistani husband, yesterday at Thanksgiving, in a conversation with a family friend...
M: Mmm! This pumpkin cake is really good!
Friend: What is it?
M: I just said that this pumpkin cake was good.
Friend: Pumpkin what? I didn't know there was any cake *looks around dessert table*
Me, overhearing: He means pumpkin pie.
The second:
Turns out I should just keep my big mouth shut lest the world decide to teach me a lesson. Turns out it can get worse. Do you know what's worse than crackly speakers in the women's prayer section on Eid prayers?
No speakers at all.
7 comments:
If there were pumpkin cake, I'm sure it would be good. Pumpkin anything is good, right?
Sorry to hear about the lack of speakers! Hope your Eid has been going well despite that setback.
Oh dear, no speakers at all?! What the heck- lol? Its not funny but it kinda is... so were you in a completely separate room altogether? Did anyone even pray if they couldn't hear?
Aww lol @ the pumpkin cake.
Oh lord. Well, what the heck do you need speakers for, you lowly woman! No go home and cook something, NOW!
Mmmmh, pumpkin cake could be a good thing.
lol pumpkin cake...my hubby loves pumpkin pie...
My community often holds Eid prayers in a large arena or fairgrounds building. Speakers are always set up. However, most of the women still cannot hear the khutbah. Why? Because if they aren't talking, then the lady beside them is.
Seriously, it's a major problem here, that as soon as the salah is over the women especially get up and chatter all through the khutbah! That's what drives me up a wall. Because quite frankly, if they were quiet, they could hear fine. And while men get up and chat too, many of those men actually leave right away, and a greater proportion of women than men get up, and the women stay there and talk so loudly.
These past two Eids I have been able to hear the khutbah because the Eid salah was split into two shifts--and since both times I went to the first shift, which was way less crowded, I had a better opportunity to hear.
Also, at my mosque (which I'm sad I'll be leaving in just a day or two to move in with my Pakistani hubby) the women pray jumu'ah upstairs in a separate room which has a TV screen and a sound system to hear. If for any reason either malfunctions, someone is always quick to go downstairs and ask the brothers to correct the problem, and they are most happy to oblige.
Sometimes someone just forgets to turn speakers on. An honest mistake, easily remedied. If the system is malfunctioning or broken, sisters should try to sit in the back of the musallah in order to hear the khutbah.
funny, A met my mum for the first time over the weekend and commented yesterday when we were back together that my mum had been using me as a translator.. not asking me, but looking at me when she didnt totally understand what he had said lol :D
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