Thank goodness for education
Scene: Sports apparel store in mall. My mom wants to buy a shirt and is debating the merits of the various sports teams. In English. By the way, my mom is completely fluent in English and has no discernible accent.
Clerk: Hey, are you guys Japanese? I took Japanese in college. We have Fukudome t-shirts.
Me: Gee, that’s great you took Japanese. No wonder you can pronounce “Fukudome.”
Price of the t-shirt Mom bought (for a hockey team): $24.
Look on the clerk’s face: Priceless.
(For the record, my mother wanted a Pippen shirt. On the way home, she talked at great length about how Michael Jordan’s superstardom was in part due to Pippen’s team spirit and talents.)
Posted on December 21, 2010, in bwahaha. Bookmark the permalink. 2 Comments.
Your mother is right. Again.
I always did like Pippen better than Jordan. Jordan was phenomenal but what an ass.