Oh! Story! One of my students, Milo, and I have occasional language / pronunciation miscommunications because…he’s from Philly and I’m not. We go back and forth sometimes, trying to figure out what the other is saying. It’s funny! Today he asked “What did your husband get you for Christmas?”
“A Kindle,” I said.
He yells “What is wrong with You People!! (meaning you White people!) He gave you ONE thing? Man, In Philly I’d be loading my old lady down with stuff!!”
“Well, we put all our money toward the kids.”
“Well, that’s OK, then. I guess,” he conceded reluctantly.
One of my other students said, “What did you get him?”
“A surround sound system.”
Milo kind of exploded! “You got him a surround sound system?? Now that’s what I’M talking about! (mumbling now) You get him a surround sound and he gets you a mumble kindle. mumble mumble I’m gonna have a talk with that boy. Mumble, mumble…be doing that to my teacher… ”
I said, “Well, it was a cheapie from Wal Mart. It cost about the same as my Kindle.”
At that point Milo paused, looked at me, realized this might be one of THOSE moments and said, ”What…. did he get you?”
“A Kindle.”
He looked around in confusion and one of the guys kind of explained what it is….
He says, “Oh. Well. I thought you said a candle.”
So, anyway. I have show and tell tomorrow! The guys would rather I bring in the surround sound but…O well. : ))