.. that 99.9% of wee islanders are beyond all forms of redemption:
the following took place just about five minutes ago:
cow-orker sitting in the cube farm next to mine received a phone call on her mobile which wasn't meant for her. ie: caller dialled a wrong number.
so she said in english - said cow-orker is eurasian: "wrong number."
caller/amoeba: "blahblahblah"
cow-orker: "you have called the wrong number."
amoeba: "blahblahblah"
cow-orker passed the phone to cow-orker sitting behind her: "T, could you please tell this woman it's wrong number? she's speaking in chinese."
cow-orker#2 speaking in chink to amoeba: "who are you looking for? this is not the number you dialled."
eh? i thought "wrong number" is a common wee island term that everyone regardless of race understands? anyways, cow-orker#1 was quite annoyed with the amoeba who had the effin' gall to retort - instead of apologising - in chink: "what WRONG number?!"
what's with some of these chinese? or was she expecting my cow-orker to reply her in chink? whatever, yours truly didn't help matters when i said to cow-orker: "you should have said long numb-berh."
everyone cracked up. except for a handful of closet racists sitting behind and next to me.
i don't give a fuck i tell ya. if i were her, i would have replied my standard, "dya understand english or not? i'm not chinese you know" with an exaggerated malay accent.
as enscribed by the letter b @ May 6, 2004 04:44 AM