As if this week wasn't stressful enough, with the pile of work I had to get done…
At the supermarket, I've piled all my stuff on the belt, the woman behind keeps hers in her trolley. As the person in front finishes and I move forward, the woman puts one of her items ahead of mine, and the guy behind the checkout picks it up and is about to scan it.
Me: What are you doing?
Woman: Oh, are all those things yours?
Conversation 2
During a class, when students are not permitted to use their mobiles, one rings. The boy answers and gestures to me as if he wants to go out to talk.
Me: This is a lesson, you have to wait until after it ends.
Boy: But miss…
Me: No, tell them to call back later.
Boy: But…
Me (beginning to get annoyed): I have told you before that you can't use your mobile in class!
Boy: But teacher, he called me…
Conversation 3
In a hotel, where I have to meet some friends who are visiting
Girl: (as I am starting down the corridor) What do you want?
Me: I'm looking for room 9- oh, I got out on the wrong floor.
Girl: You can't go there, it's just for girls.
(This conversation didn’t make sense to me until later.)
At a money transfer agent.
Me: I would like to send some money to an account in
Woman: Sorry?
Me:
Woman: (blank look and a long pause) What is the capital city of that place, please?
In an exam, students are working on the same computers they usually use.
Me: Can I see what the second document is that you have open? (I look, and find it is something that the student had written the previous lesson, that I had corrected.) You have just used that in your exam?
Man: Yes.
Me: But that's cheating.
Man: Really?
8 comments:
hahahaha.. Awesome!
I still don't get Conversation 3, though.
Hahaha... Morons indeed. Somebody should write a book on experiences in the classroom in the Gulf.
This is really funny. If it's any consolation, my week has been stressful too. Not as funny, though.
I didn't get conversation 3, either.
cradle and bala wala shi - the corridor she didn't want me going down was where the hotel prostitutes lived (of whom she was one), but i didn't realise what was going on at first, until i met some more 'girls' in the lift and corridors.
i was embarrassed to have booked a room there for my friends (a married couple in their seventies), but they were quite unconcerned, and were very happy with the location. it's sad, but there are probably just a handful of hotels in bahrain without that problem.
and by the way, the girl in no.3 wasn't being a moron as such; i included the conversation because of the strange situation, and the way she said 'just for girls' that made me want to say 'but i am a girl!'
Thank you for this, I haven't giggled in ages, and this post just made my day.
It took me a while to understand conversation 3, but I did get there eventually! :)
Thanks for that again...
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hi lulwa - you're welcome, glad you enjoyed it!
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