Answering For Others

Aaron and Karen are noto­ri­ous for their inabil­i­ty to end a phone call with­in the first fif­teen min­utes of pick­ing up. This isn’t always their fault, of course, because most of the time it’s the peo­ple at the oth­er end who per­sist in stay­ing on the line. Sometimes I’ll pre­tend that it’s a wrong num­ber when we’re hang­ing out so that they won’t be dis­turbed. Unfortunately, this time, the per­son was per­sis­tent. It end­ed up being a rude char­i­ty work­er.

My Chinese has a ter­ri­ble Western accent, bad enough for me to be able to rec­og­nize it and cringe. Normally, I’m not so bad, but I was def­i­nite­ly rusty and caught off-guard.

2 comments

  1. I’d love to stop and read, but your font is too small and there’s not enough con­trast. I’ll stop back again. Cheers.

  2. I know I should­n’t real­ly say any­thing about the com­ments that peo­ple leave, see­ing as how this is a pub­lic site, and I’ve made the con­scious deci­sion of allow­ing com­ments. But wow. That’s prob­a­bly the stu­pid­est fuck­ing com­ment I’ve ever received. Aside from the fact that dif­fer­ent browsers, res­o­lu­tions, and mon­i­tors are used to surf the net, mak­ing it near­ly impos­si­ble to have leg­i­ble text for every con­fig­u­ra­tion with­out run­ning dif­fer­ent ver­sions of a web­site. I can see some­one com­plain­ing, and nev­er vis­it­ing again. I can see some­one com­pli­ment­ing, and return­ing. But to com­plain, and say that you’ll be back?

    Don’t both­er. Neither the font size, nor the con­trast, will change in the near future. I guess it does­n’t real­ly mat­ter if I say this, since you won’t be able to read it any­way.

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