NOT What It Says On The Tin
I walk into an Indian fast food cafe whose name is literally “Roti & Chai.”
Me: “I’ll have the prawn roti roll and a masala chai, please.”
Cashier: “Sorry, we don’t serve chai. Only [soda].”
Me: “But it’s in your name.”
Decoding Your Partner
Durban, Home, Silly, South Africa, Spouses & Partners, Technology, Wordplay |
Romantic
| March 13, 2020
(My partner is doing something involving computer code.)
Me: “What ‘cha doing?”
Partner: “Just a course on image analysis.”
Me: “What language is it in?”
Partner: *looks at me like I’m stupid* “English.”
Me: *laughing* “Man, you only know English; that wasn’t the question.”
Partner: “Oh! Matlab.”
An Interesting Train Of Thought
In many societies, people keep dogs as companions or burglar alarms but don’t train them to obey commands systematically. I grew up with dogs like this, but I am trying to train my current dog. One thing I’ve taught her is to sit at the gate before we go for walks so she doesn’t get in the habit of bolting through the open gate by herself.
As we are going out one day, a random man is walking past.
Me: “Sit!”
The dog sits.
Man: “Hawu, sisi! [Wow, sister!] Your dog can speak English?”
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