The other day a woman at work asked me what was my comfort food. I don't have any. You're kidding she said. All of us have comfort food.
Not all of us. Yes, it is, she said.
Don't tell me you ask all the people their comfort food.
Well, most of the people I know have comfort food.
So, it's not all of us. It's all the people you know have comfort food.
She rolled her eyes.
What was that rolling eyes for?
You're making things more complicated she said.
Maybe I am, and you just see things from your point of view.
Our conversation went on and on for another ten minutes, until I said:
Never mind Laurie, my bad. I was wrong to make an assumption too.
Huh?
Never mind. Talk to you later.
Yes. I made a big mistake, a big mistake I've always tried to avoid. I made an assumption about Laurie. Laurie is majoring in English Literature at UMass. She likes to correct people grammar's, especially when she hears and individual whose English is a second language speakers like me.
Once she tried to correct a grammar mistake made by one of the Brazillian girls.
The girl went off. That didn't stop Laurie.
I think Laurie see her self as English language crusader, or whatever .......
I'm not being difficult. But I can't to keep my mouth shout when people say something stupid in my face. May be I am difficult. But that's how I am. I guess that's why I'd rather keep a very few selective friends who can see eye to eye with me. Friends who are willing for an open-ended discussion, friends who do not shut off their learning doors.
Once, a co-worker was fidgeting with his cell phone while we waiting for a train.
What kind of cell phone you got?
I ain't got one.
Get out of here. Everybody got one.
Well, I'm not everybody.
You know what I mean.
I know what you mean.
If our conversation did not take a different route, I would have told Laurie, I have a comfort movie though, and it's called Chocolat. As a matter of fact two nights ago I watched Chocolat again for the sixteenth times. Chocolat was the first movie that adaptred from Joanne Harris's first novel that I love. Most of the time I do not like movies adapted from books. The plots were ruined not to mention the dialogues were disaster, and when I see the The End word, I was disappointed. I expected more.
Like a movie Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe. The movie was adapted from the book with the same title, authored by Fannie Flagg. I finished the book in two days, and days after I read it I thought I'd known all the characters all my life. The author dragged me along with their pain, joy and laughter. That's the kind of book I enjoy reading.
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