July 12, 2004

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We have a guest staying with us for his last few days in Hong Kong before he returns forever to Australia and familyhood. He is squeezing every last drop of temporary bachelor-ness out of Hong Kong while he can and each evening he undegoes a meticulous process to prepare for each night's festivities. He is man who takes extreme care with his appearance. Let's, for the sake of this, call him Dean.

On Friday evening he asked to borrow some hair gel. I told him there was some on the shelf in our bathroom. A couple of minutes later he emerges:

Dean: "Mate, is this hair gel?"
Simon (with rapidly growing smile): "No, that's shaving cream."
Dean: "Oh."
Simon (getting Mrs M to have a look and bordering on laughter): "Have you already put that in your hair?"
Dean (rapidly realising this will end badly): "Maybe."
Simon (in tears): "Try the stuff the next shelf down."
Dean: "But this said gel..."
Simon: "Yep, right under Gillette Shaving..."
Dean: "Oh."

It almost beats JC, who watched about an hour of Sleeping Beauty in Mandarin before her Dad walked in and realised she couldn't understand a word being said. When I asked her, she gave the perfectly reasonable response of "it doesn't matter". I think she might have had too much sun this weekend.

posted by Simon on 07.12.04 at 11:04 AM in the




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Comments:

Reminds me of a (non-English reading) friend who mistook the large tube of KY Jelly for toothpaste. "I wondered why it was transparent" he added.

posted by: Wanbro on 07.12.04 at 03:56 PM [permalink]

Jaimee is just too shy to admit she is fluent in mandarin

posted by: da on 07.12.04 at 05:00 PM [permalink]




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