Daily Archive for July 2nd, 2008

Sally the Translator

The Amurkin in Russia waited after people spoke to him in English, looking brightly at me all the while, expecting me to translate what they said. IN ENGLISH. This is for a coworker at REI…”awwwkkkwaaarrrdddd…”

Nope, I’ve never translated English to English before. Not even in Scotland. In Scotland I just didn’t f*@cking understand. Let’s just say this was embarrassing for me and for him in many different ways. Every time he did it I was mortified. MORTIFIED.

But wait, folks, there’s still so much more to come.