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 Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 8:19 am
Have you ever had a moment, that totally came out at you, from left field, and caught you off guard? For me, there was this one time at my job, where some totally Korean-looking lady, with her Korean-looking kid, came up to me, to ask for my help...and she spoke in complete, fluent SPANISH. I must've been runnin' 'round there for 10 minutes, until I found someone that did speak it, and could properly assist her. Even though that was a while back, it still weirds me out, whenever I think about it. A person that looks Korean, but speaks total Spanish, with no English or Korean whatsoever. For me, that's like a Japanese tourist coming up, and asking you for directions in French.
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Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 12:47 am
Well, here we are having increasingly amounts of Black people speaking fluent English without a Xhosian, Zulu or even a Setwana accent so that's somewhat creepy sweatdrop
Long story short, South Africa has nine official languages. Sign language is trying to become the tenth official language. And this is to say that we also do teach and some people do speak Dutch, Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, etc.
I remember working for a hairdresser for the day (to cover for a friend) and I was flabbergasted to discover that the head hairdresser used to be a Michael, and was now a Michelle, and her gay-lover now became her straight-lover. At sixteen when you've lived a sheltered life, that was pretty mind-blowing!! And to tell you the truth, I've never seen such a feminine woman in my life 3nodding
And, admittedly, I still find it strange to encounter some of our rare and few Asian citizens here and hear them speak fluent Afrikaans sweatdrop Afrikaans, is like a mixture of Dutch, German, French and other bits and pieces but sounds more like Flemish?
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Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 5:29 pm
Hmm, well..only two things stick in my mind. One was just rude, and the other was just eek .
The shocker one was when I was working I ask to see ID when someone pays with cerdit, I asked to see this mans ID and his last name was MANKILLER!! I wanted to say something to him like "Do you get alot of jokes because of your last name??" But I was scared he would well..kill
me.
The other one was when i was working. (I worked at a Spencers in the mall, so fun goth kids and geeks come in a joke around with gag gifts so a pretty laid back job.) A kid walks in I saw "What it do??" In a very gangsta' like way, because at the time I was dressed in baggy overalls and an oversized gangsta hoody. (I am mixed too by the way) Anywho, he says "Yo, yo, yo...because I am hella' black." and he wasn't he was a emo dressed white boy. I give him a glare, and I say, "really, I am mixed." and then he says!!! "Really..so could you like steal something for me??" I was like WTF?? and I asked him to leave because that was just rude, and it was rather shocking. I was pretty pissed. Anywho...thats all folks! mrgreen
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Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 6:45 am
Sesqupidalopobia The shocker one was when I was working I ask to see ID when someone pays with cerdit, I asked to see this mans ID and his last name was MANKILLER!! I wanted to say something to him like "Do you get alot of jokes because of your last name??" But I was scared he would well..kill me. Bahaha! My GP, the first time we went to her this year burst out laughing when she saw our surname...I already knew about it, because I got cracks about it too in the past...but she went on about how my last name was like from the Shining...instead of "Redrummm....REDRUMMM..." my last name would be like, "Mardurrrr...MARDUUUUUUUR!!" but er, honestly, I don't really know how, but I think when people see the "Rud" of the "Rudram", they assume "Redrummmm...REDRUMMMM... eek " Needless to say, it was funny to see my mother fall off her chair when the doctor started laughing rofl
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Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 2:40 pm
What came out of nowhere for me was when my somewhat innocent friend who knew nothing of sex before she met me regularly masturbated. I was over at her house and she just told me when we were just going to sleep and had been laying there for a little bit. I was in complete shock for a while then burst out laughing because it was just so random.
Also when a guy and a girl I know who were both thought to be asexual started dating each other...then were affectionate. VERY affectionate. And neither are very affectionate people by nature.
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Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 3:37 am
I'd have to say that most of mine come out of searching for a particular internet fad on YTMND. A few searches that will get real "WTF"s out of you even if you know what the original fad is include:
Darth Vader
Loituma
G-Man
(Especially G-Man... Man that's a messed-up meme already.)
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Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 10:52 pm
madamfluff Sesqupidalopobia The shocker one was when I was working I ask to see ID when someone pays with cerdit, I asked to see this mans ID and his last name was MANKILLER!! I wanted to say something to him like "Do you get alot of jokes because of your last name??" But I was scared he would well..kill me. Bahaha! My GP, the first time we went to her this year burst out laughing when she saw our surname...I already knew about it, because I got cracks about it too in the past...but she went on about how my last name was like from the Shining...instead of "Redrummm....REDRUMMM..." my last name would be like, "Mardurrrr...MARDUUUUUUUR!!" but er, honestly, I don't really know how, but I think when people see the "Rud" of the "Rudram", they assume "Redrummmm...REDRUMMMM... eek " Needless to say, it was funny to see my mother fall off her chair when the doctor started laughing rofl I didn't get that redrum thing when I first heard about it. It took actually watching "The Shining" (which is incredibly creepy! It's like Olive Oyl and Haley Joel Osmen VERSUS Jack Nicholson the Creepy Violent Man). >_> I think it kind of shocked me when my best friend admitted that she had never thought of or heard of masturbation until college. I was doing it for years and years and the thought of going a whole decade or so of life without having masturbation just horrified me.
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Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 4:22 am
I had a fourteen year old girl I worked with at tattoo conventions since she was like nine, ask me to hold her at night in more than a "just friends" way. She'd never really expressed intrest in me before that, so that kind of shocked me. I was 16 or 17 at the time, not that long ago. She's a sweetie though, good times.
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