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I'll let you in on a story
Oct. 17th, 2005 04:06 amA lady comes into work today to pick up some pizza and wings. She's stocky, wearing dirty sweat pants and a stained shirt and she's missing a couple teeth and has a few more rotting away. She's nice but loud. And I reach forward when she hands me the money and she sees my tattoo.
"OH! That's nice, where'd you get it?" she asks me.
"At the tattoo place just down the street here," I answer.
"I can read that, you know. Its that mid eastern...Arab language," she says to her fellow tooth missing woman. She turns to me, "That's really lovely. I can write that and read that language, you know."
"Oh, that's nice," I can't think of anything better to say.
She turns back to her friend, "I want to get my kid's names tattooed on me in that same Arab language."
I smile and fail to point out that my tattoo is not Arabic. And if she knew how to write and read the language she would have noticed that. And that if she could write and read the language she supposedly can, she could easily have a nice comfy job in today's America as a translator of some sort. Not getting stuck walking into a Pizza Hut on a Sunday night with half your teeth rotting out of your skull.
German words written in a pretty little script text does not equal Arabic.
Why do people have to lie? Straight out lie? And stupid lies that would be so easy to call people down on if only I was more of a bitch. I don't understand it. please explain it to me.
"OH! That's nice, where'd you get it?" she asks me.
"At the tattoo place just down the street here," I answer.
"I can read that, you know. Its that mid eastern...Arab language," she says to her fellow tooth missing woman. She turns to me, "That's really lovely. I can write that and read that language, you know."
"Oh, that's nice," I can't think of anything better to say.
She turns back to her friend, "I want to get my kid's names tattooed on me in that same Arab language."
I smile and fail to point out that my tattoo is not Arabic. And if she knew how to write and read the language she would have noticed that. And that if she could write and read the language she supposedly can, she could easily have a nice comfy job in today's America as a translator of some sort. Not getting stuck walking into a Pizza Hut on a Sunday night with half your teeth rotting out of your skull.
German words written in a pretty little script text does not equal Arabic.
Why do people have to lie? Straight out lie? And stupid lies that would be so easy to call people down on if only I was more of a bitch. I don't understand it. please explain it to me.
