I was once asked if I prefere $25 via paypal or $50 to a tip jar if I were the #3401 poster in a boring thread.
Ah, cool. I was once in your shoes, GO_Korea. I didn't know English, either. But now I do. Here's a good tip: keep working hard at it. You'll get there. Nope, unless it happens TWICE with the same waiter... in which case it will be extreme. You let that get the best of you, and you will take it out on someone else or take it home with you. Handle it calmly. Stop getting mad at everything.
Was in Tunica, Mississippi with my wife and 2 year old daughter. I'm black, my wife is white so naturally our children have natural, tan skin. We were in a shoe store when an associate asks the following about our daughter: She's so beautiful, do guys let her lay in the tanning bed? Second place. Somebody runs into a black person or something happens with a black person and somebody will ask Do you know ______________, he's black?
I don't think you get it.. those kinds of questions to Asians are the equivalent of someone asking you "Do you speak Mexican?"
No, I don't think YOU get it. My answer will be "no, I speak Spanish. Mexican is not a language" and I still wouldn't be irritated.
Regarding my boy/girl twins, people will ask "Are they identical or fraternal?" (Swoly, I don't go ape-**** on them and instead simply answer the question. But, it's still a stupid question.) And then another question that isn't stupid but irritates me in its presumption, "Why aren't you a Christian?" or the corollary, "Why would you believe that?" And another that annoys me not because its stupid but because it's far too invasive and it's tossed around too casually by people I don't know when they learn I have four children: "Are you done?" I take it you won't be inviting me to the dinner party.
I have a couple. 7th grade science teacher asked me: "what is a typhoon?" I guess they don't teach weather at Texas A&M. Girl in my 10th grade AP World History class asked me: "How many people died in the Industrial Revolution?" And also, "Did World War II come after World War I?"
Also, since I'm a twin, all of the "twin questions" are really stupid to me: Are you twins? Who's smarter? Who's faster? Who's taller? Who's older? By how much?
If you were a tree, then what kind of tree would you be and why? why i'd be an oak tree cause were greedy and take up all the sunlight...while the maples want more sunlight and scream "oppression"...and we oaks ignore their pleas.
Have you ever wondered if there was more to life, other than being really, really, ridiculously good looking?
"Is the moon in Australia the same as the moon we have here in England?" I was doing this girl at the time....
