Mara's Mindless Babble
Dry-Cleaning Dilema
Ok, ok, ok.... so I haven't posted in a while... sue me.
Seriously friends, I have been so friggin busy there has been no time to post. This promotion is killing me. But I'm not going to bore you with a bunch of neurotic, pixified corporate blah blah... However, I am going to just go ahead and rant about a little speedbump in my life that probably isn't nearly as traumatic as I make it out to be.... But SHIT! When you're salaried and working overtime ALL THE TIME... everything's traumatic.
So, Saturday I decided it's time to drop off my clothes to the dry cleaner. I discuss this with Tango and we agree that I should try the new dry cleaner - well... only dry-cleaner... in town, as opposed to driving into A2 to drop it off there.
Well we get in there and it's a traditional Chinese Laundry. No problem... I'm all into supplier diversity when it comes to nail salons and take-out food - why not my laundry???
So, I'm waiting in line to drop off my things when a bundle of clothes with two little legs comes running through the door, zips around the corner and disappears for exactly.25 seconds... this little thing is FAST!
The next second this tiny little chinese woman - about as tall as a friggin egg roll - is standing at the side counter. Banging her palm repeatedly on it she yells to me... "I hep oo" "oo co here, I hep oo!" (that's I help you, you come here, I help you for the culturaly impaired)
I step to the side counter and hand her my things...
"Foh jackahh and wah skir?" she asks (four jacket and one skirt?)
"Yes, thank you". I say
I wait while she looks over my things and writes up the receipt.... the little thing moves like the wind.
Finally I ask when I can pick them up.
"Doo Day" she says with a smile.
Stunned I look at her and reply, with some amazement, "Today?!?"
"Ahhh no, Doo Day" -her
"TODAY!!" -me
"No, NO!! DOO DAY" -her
"Ohhh... two days, ok" -I reply with a smile
If looks could kill that little won-ton would have layed me out flat....
"NO" she said...... "NO MOW-DAY, NO WEN-DAY..... DOO-DAY!!!"
"OHHHH.... TUESday"............. damn... did I feel like an ass.
::smooches::
Mara
Ok, ok, ok.... so I haven't posted in a while... sue me.
Seriously friends, I have been so friggin busy there has been no time to post. This promotion is killing me. But I'm not going to bore you with a bunch of neurotic, pixified corporate blah blah... However, I am going to just go ahead and rant about a little speedbump in my life that probably isn't nearly as traumatic as I make it out to be.... But SHIT! When you're salaried and working overtime ALL THE TIME... everything's traumatic.
So, Saturday I decided it's time to drop off my clothes to the dry cleaner. I discuss this with Tango and we agree that I should try the new dry cleaner - well... only dry-cleaner... in town, as opposed to driving into A2 to drop it off there.
Well we get in there and it's a traditional Chinese Laundry. No problem... I'm all into supplier diversity when it comes to nail salons and take-out food - why not my laundry???
So, I'm waiting in line to drop off my things when a bundle of clothes with two little legs comes running through the door, zips around the corner and disappears for exactly.25 seconds... this little thing is FAST!
The next second this tiny little chinese woman - about as tall as a friggin egg roll - is standing at the side counter. Banging her palm repeatedly on it she yells to me... "I hep oo" "oo co here, I hep oo!" (that's I help you, you come here, I help you for the culturaly impaired)
I step to the side counter and hand her my things...
"Foh jackahh and wah skir?" she asks (four jacket and one skirt?)
"Yes, thank you". I say
I wait while she looks over my things and writes up the receipt.... the little thing moves like the wind.
Finally I ask when I can pick them up.
"Doo Day" she says with a smile.
Stunned I look at her and reply, with some amazement, "Today?!?"
"Ahhh no, Doo Day" -her
"TODAY!!" -me
"No, NO!! DOO DAY" -her
"Ohhh... two days, ok" -I reply with a smile
If looks could kill that little won-ton would have layed me out flat....
"NO" she said...... "NO MOW-DAY, NO WEN-DAY..... DOO-DAY!!!"
"OHHHH.... TUESday"............. damn... did I feel like an ass.
::smooches::
Mara
posted by Mara @ 1:34 PM
23 Comments:
At 7:09 PM,
EXSENO said…
Oh that is funny, you better watch out she might know some martial arts. lol
At 6:17 AM,
nitewalk6 said…
No need to feel like an ass Mara. There is a huge movement in this country to get ENGLISH back as our national language. Is she wants to continue doing business with English speaking people her tongue will acclimate sooner or later. You may have tought her a lesson in English that day.
At 6:25 AM,
Pusher Robot said…
hahahahahaha
oriental-ese always cracks me up ... its why i get a kick out of THIS site.
At 6:39 AM,
Michael said…
LMAO...That's so wrong, but so funny. I love this country.
At 7:32 AM,
bricotrout said…
you got to the answer faster than i would have. mine would have gone something like this:
her: Doo - day
me: huh? what? doo? but... when is that? i go 'doo' every day. sometimes three times when i eat your food!
lol, good for you you international bringer of good will.
At 9:23 AM,
honkeie said…
ohhhhhhh my god that is too funny. I bet she cannt until feeday to go and poty....hahahaha
At 9:29 AM,
Grimstarr said…
ROFL. Funny shit girl. If she promises to lu yoo lon tim ... run like hell. LOL
TG
At 11:17 AM,
Aisha T. said…
Well, Mara, next time you'll know *grin*. I always feel like an ass when that happens but, then again, I feel like an ass when I'm in another country and try a badly accented version of that countries language.
At 11:58 AM,
Alex said…
Excellent, that was tres funny. LMFAO.
It even beats the time one of my staff left me a message to call a customer called "Jack Dish". Turns out it was an Asian guy called Jagdesh :)
At 7:52 PM,
A Bronx Tale said…
yes the language barrier is hard. but how long have they been here.
i know some of my relatives have been in canada for like 30 years and still don't like speaking english and i'm all like get used to it you've been here for 30 years.
the little chinese ladies. they're cute and all nice. very pushy at times but that's just cuteness in them..
haaaaaaaa
At 3:52 AM,
.- said…
baby - at least it's an attempt at english
At 4:54 AM,
Sheets said…
Hmmm.... the name seems familiar... but.... no... nope... can't place the face.... who are you again?
At 12:07 PM,
betchacantguesswho said…
I feel your pain!! My eye doctor is Asian. Last time I got this: "yoo ref eye rook riddle angwy. take dee and put in ref eye erry day fo times and come back at endoweek."
At 12:13 PM,
wopanese said…
BUT, were her lips moving in time with the words?!!
Damn, that's so wrong. Glad I'm half-asian so I can say these things. I love my mom, but we used to pick on her about
flied lice = that's fried rice to everyone else...
At 1:14 PM,
doobrie said…
Nice do dee ou back
At 10:15 PM,
TJ said…
lol...very funny post. And after last week's pic, I am definitely looking forward to your next entry for HalfNekkid DURS-DAY....
Happy HNT!
At 7:38 PM,
Greg - Cowboy in the Jungle said…
I damn near passed out! Very funny!
At 4:41 PM,
Anonymous said…
Girl you are a mess everytime I come here I am laughing so hard I am in stitches....lol I would of done the same thing.
At 6:34 PM,
Anonymous said…
Just wavin' atcha Babe! Been outta commission lately! Hope you're doin' ok! :)
At 11:53 PM,
TJ said…
hope this is just a temporary hiatus--I took a recent break from blogging myself but my mojo finally returned.
hope all is well with you...
At 8:00 AM,
bricotrout said…
mara, please email me.
At 9:23 PM,
Anonymous said…
Hey Smooches, when you coming back????? ;)
At 10:12 AM,
ShyRocket said…
Dropped by to say hi... hope you are doing well.
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