Thursday, July 16, 2009

Que?

The other night I was at the grocery store and an older woman approached me with a confused look on her face. "Espanol?" she asked.

"Uh, hablo pequito espanol," I replied.

She proceeded to explain (in spanish) that she was looking for oregano and didn't know how to find it among the numerous spices on the shelves. I located it for her and that was that.

But I had to ponder...of all the people in the grocery store...why did she think the translucent white girl with red hair was the most likely one to speak spanish?

2 comments:

Alexis Grant said...

Ha! But you DID!

O.M.G. said...

how do you say oregano in spanish?
um, oregano.
from what i know of spanish speakers, if you didn't reply in spanish, she would have asked you for help in english. maybe she just wanted to have a story for her blog about how this paper-white chica with red hair spoke spanish at the mercado.