Lost In Translation
Incident 1
Caller: .. And I would like to make an appointment..
Staff: Ok, by the way, where [which country] are you calling from? [standard question to find out if caller is local or from overseas]
Caller: Uh….. home..?
Staff: *befuddled*
Incident 2
Me: I’m craving for Jap food.
Colleague: Ah, I’m craving for durians.
Me: ???
After a short while
Me: Do you know of anywhere near here which sells Jap food? I can only think of Honjin at Raffles Place.
Colleague: *gives me a really strange look* Never heard of Honjin..
Me: Quite a nice place, but I don’t want to go there. It’s expensive..
Colleague: *gives me an even stranger you-are-so-weird look*
Me: *feeling like I am so weird* What???
After another short while
Me: So do you know of any place?
Colleague: *frowns* I think Chinatown Market should have bah…
Me: *puzzled to hell and eternity* Chinatown market?? *attempts to imagine Sakae Sushi smacked in the middle of the market*
Colleague: *oblivious to my agonized confusion* Yah, Chinatown market, you know, where.. *trails off*
Short pause while colleague and I stared at each other wordlessly.
Me: *burst into laughter for eons*
Colleague: ????
Me: It’s Jap food, not Jackfruits!
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s t a r m | s t May 24th, 2006
haha… this is so funny… jap food… not wonder she said cravings for durians… wat a mess… hee..
burst-out-in-5-secs-laughters
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yeah, i think my blocked nose [thus affected speech] has caused many a misunderstanding. =/