Saturday, May 13, 2006

Slipping Tongue

I haven't slept much recently. I usually go to bed at around 5am and wake up in the morning next day. It's all my fault. I have been too lazy now I'm paying for it.

When I don't have much sleep and I feel tired, I start having a problem with communication. My mouth stops working properly. I start not being able to pronounce words in the right way in English or Japanese.

Yesterday I was at a property management office for apartment-hunting. I wanted to ask "Do you have two bedrooms?" But what slipped out of my mouth was,

"Do you have poo?"

I really don't understand why I pronounced "t" as "p" and why I stopped there. If I had said "Do you have poo bedrooms?" The front clerk would have known what I meant. Instead I just asked her if she had poo and closed my mouth with a sober face. I hope she didn't hear me, for she didn't change her expression at all.

Then Pecha, who stood next to me, began laughing and I couldn't hold myself either. Seeing us both burst into laughing the front clerk smiled a little, too, but I still hope she didn't hear. She probably smiled to be polite because we were both laughing. I'm sure she didn't hear me.

I'm embarrassed.

1 comments:

sarahww said...

Hilarious.

At least you didn't say, "I'm looking for two poos."