Full Transcript for Well...That's Embarrassing!

she grabs his hand. 00:02:14.960 --> 00:02:18.159 I I can't even imagine how he felt at that moment. 00:02:20.240 --> 00:02:21.280 He loved it. 00:02:21.919 --> 00:02:23.120 I'm gonna go with that. 00:02:23.360 --> 00:02:24.560 He loved it. 00:02:24.960 --> 00:02:25.759 He loved it. 00:02:25.919 --> 00:02:26.560 He loved it. 00:02:26.719 --> 00:02:29.680 I've definitely done that a couple of times too. 00:02:30.159 --> 00:02:31.520 You've started talking to someone. 00:02:31.759 --> 00:02:31.840 Yeah. 00:02:32.080 --> 00:02:33.280 Oh, I've grabbed somebody's hand. 00:02:33.680 --> 00:02:35.439 Grab somebody's hand that wasn't the person. 00:02:36.080 --> 00:02:38.159 Lena! Is that not normal? 00:02:38.960 --> 00:02:39.919 Has it ever happened to you? 00:02:40.080 --> 00:02:41.439 I don't know if it has happened to me. 00:02:42.080 --> 00:02:45.520 I love that you have a story that I know that I haven't experienced. 00:02:45.759 --> 00:02:46.479 This is great news. 00:02:46.800 --> 00:02:48.479 It's happened to me multiple times. 00:02:50.159 --> 00:02:51.759 It's embarrassing. 00:02:52.159 --> 00:02:53.120 So this happened. 00:02:53.360 --> 00:02:55.759 You thought it was your boyfriend, you just went up and grabbed his hand. 00:02:55.919 --> 00:03:00.240 Well, no, one time I thought it was my cousin, so I grabbed them like on the arm. 00:03:00.400 --> 00:03:00.479 Okay. 00:03:00.800 --> 00:03:03.439 And I looked and I went, oh, never mind. 00:03:04.159 --> 00:03:05.280 That's hilarious. 00:03:05.759 --> 00:03:07.199 I thought you were someone else. 00:03:07.439 --> 00:03:11.680 Another time I was really small, and I thought it was my mom, so I went and held the lady's hand. 00:03:11.759 --> 00:03:12.719 It wasn't my mom. 00:03:12.879 --> 00:03:18.879 I got embarrassed, and then I ran out of the grocery store crying and sat on the curb until my mom came and caught me. 00:03:20.560 --> 00:03:23.840 I remember doing the only time I remember doing that also was as a child. 00:03:24.080 --> 00:03:28.000 I remember running up to a man that I thought was my dad and hugging him. 00:03:28.240 --> 00:03:30.960 I was probably five or six at the time. 00:03:31.280 --> 00:03:35.759 And then when I realized it wasn't him, just like you just feel horrified, right? 00:03:36.080 --> 00:03:39.039 You're just like, what what just happened? 00:03:39.599 --> 00:03:40.719 Stranger danger. 00:03:41.840 --> 00:03:44.560 I'm glad that that's happening to other people, though. 00:03:45.840 --> 00:03:46.319 Thank you. 00:03:46.479 --> 00:03:47.759 Thank you for your submission. 00:03:48.000 --> 00:03:49.840 And lucky him, she still married him. 00:03:50.479 --> 00:03:50.960 Right. 00:03:52.479 --> 00:03:54.319 Alright, our next story. 00:03:54.639 --> 00:04:01.439 I have an embarrassing story from when I was in my late teens or early twenties that still makes me laugh and cringe. 00:04:02.240 --> 00:04:07.199 After church, everyone would hang out in the foyer for a while,

chatting before heading home. 00:04:07.439 --> 00:04:13.759 A friend of ours had just started dating a new guy, and he had recently become recently begun coming to church with her. 00:04:14.000 --> 00:04:18.240 The only detail you need to know is for this story is that he was black. 00:04:18.560 --> 00:04:23.199 We were all standing in a circle talking, and for the life of me, I couldn't remember his name. 00:04:23.279 --> 00:04:25.839 So I asked, What's your name again? 00:04:28.079 --> 00:04:30.720 He smiled and said, Wayman. 00:04:31.920 --> 00:04:37.279 Without thinking, I blurted out, Oh yeah, Wayman, that's white. 00:04:37.680 --> 00:04:42.639 The second those words left my mouth, I realized what I'd actually meant to say was, that's right. 00:04:43.360 --> 00:04:44.879 Right with an R. 00:04:45.920 --> 00:04:48.800 I tried to recover, but it was way too late. 00:04:48.959 --> 00:04:51.439 My face turned about 18 shades of red. 00:04:51.600 --> 00:04:56.959 Everyone burst out laughing, and I wanted the floor to open up and swallow me. 00:04:57.279 --> 00:05:04.800 Thankfully, Wayman was a great sport about it, but to this day I still think about that moment and laugh while dying a little inside. 00:05:05.120 --> 00:05:06.319 That's so funny. 00:05:07.279 --> 00:05:08.639 That's white. 00:05:08.879 --> 00:05:09.920 That's white. 00:05:10.480 --> 00:05:11.279 Wayman? 00:05:11.439 --> 00:05:12.319 That's white. 00:05:12.560 --> 00:05:13.519 I mean, right? 00:05:15.199 --> 00:05:16.319 Oh my god. 00:05:17.439 --> 00:05:19.199 That's something that would happen to you. 00:05:19.360 --> 00:05:19.920 Totally. 00:05:20.160 --> 00:05:21.360 A thousand percent. 00:05:21.600 --> 00:05:22.160 Yes. 00:05:22.639 --> 00:05:23.199 It would. 00:05:23.439 --> 00:05:23.759 I don't know. 00:05:23.839 --> 00:05:28.399 I think maybe I would have just played it off like I actually said right and you heard it wrong. 00:05:28.560 --> 00:05:29.519 I don't know. 00:05:29.759 --> 00:05:31.519 Would I have corrected myself? 00:05:31.680 --> 00:05:32.160 I don't know. 00:05:32.319 --> 00:05:34.319 Would you have corrected yourself? 00:05:34.560 --> 00:05:36.959 I think in my late teens I probably would have. 00:05:37.120 --> 00:05:38.639 Early 20s, I probably would have now. 00:05:38.800 --> 00:05:40.399 I'd have just like let it go. 00:05:41.120 --> 00:05:41.839 Let it go. 00:05:41.920 --> 00:05:44.800 But back then I think I probably totally would have corrupted myself. 00:05:45.120 --> 00:05:47.120 Yeah, probably, especially at church. 00:05:47.360 --> 00:05:48.560 Yeah, exactly. 00:05:48.879 --> 00:05:56.319 When everyone is supposed to feel welcomed and you're pointing out colors that shouldn't be pointed out. 00:05:56.639 --> 00:05:58.079 Oh, that's hilarious. 00:05:58.319 --> 00:06:06.079 Well, it kind of reminds me of a story of just like misunderstandings or maybe not speaking clearly enough. 00:06:06.480 --> 00:06:10.639 Um, my brother gave me permission to share this story, so I'm gonna go ahead and share it. 00:06:11.519 --> 00:06:13.759 He didn't want to call in or share it himself. 00:06:14.399 --> 00:06:15.680 No, I don't think so. 00:06:15.920 --> 00:06:21.279 Um, so he was up um visiting and he was telling us stories. 00:06:21.439 --> 00:06:28.160 He's I don't know if he was a paramedic at the time or a fireman, but one of those times um he was he was telling a story of what happened. 00:06:28.319 --> 00:06:30.879 So he got on a call and so he was going to this person's house. 00:06:31.199 --> 00:06:36.319 And um when he got there, the guy answered the door and was saying, Chicken bread? 00:06:36.639 --> 00:06:39.680 And my brother's like, uh no thanks. 00:06:39.839 --> 00:06:40.480 No thanks. 00:06:40.639 --> 00:06:42.399 I I'm not hungry. 00:06:42.639 --> 00:06:46.800 And he's like, No, chicken bread. 00:06:47.040 --> 00:06:50.000 And he's like, seriously, I'm just ate. 00:06:50.639 --> 00:06:52.160 I don't even know what chicken bread is. 00:06:52.720 --> 00:06:53.199 Chicken bread. 00:06:53.680 --> 00:06:54.160 Chicken bread. 00:06:54.319 --> 00:06:58.160 Chicken bread, I don't bread, but I don't I don't I I don't want any chicken bread. 00:06:58.319 --> 00:06:59.120 Thank you. 00:06:59.680 --> 00:07:01.600 Well, I don't want any chicken bread either. 00:07:03.519 --> 00:07:15.439 And so finally he's like, No man, she got bread, and he points over to his wife, and so finally it dawns on him like she can't breathe. 00:07:15.759 --> 00:07:23.680 So he goes over and feeds or helps feeds, he goes over and helps um the person and is able to like make sure that she's okay. 00:07:23.920 --> 00:07:33.279 But the funny part of that story is is that when he was trying to tell the story, he was like, Yeah, I got to the door, and he's like, Man, chicken breath. 00:07:33.519 --> 00:07:36.160 And I'm like, Oh my god, she can't breathe. 00:07:36.720 --> 00:07:38.000 And you understand it right away. 00:07:38.560 --> 00:07:38.879 Right away. 00:07:38.959 --> 00:07:39.920 And he's like, What do you mean? 00:07:40.079 --> 00:07:40.800 You like what? 00:07:40.959 --> 00:07:42.480 He's like, What do you what are you talking about? 00:07:42.560 --> 00:07:43.680 And I'm like, she can't breathe. 00:07:43.759 --> 00:07:44.160 What happened? 00:07:44.319 --> 00:07:45.120 Like, what did you do? 00:07:45.199 --> 00:07:46.639 Like, what was the procedure that happened? 00:07:46.720 --> 00:07:47.360 Was she choking? 00:07:47.439 --> 00:07:48.160 Like, what happened? 00:07:48.319 --> 00:07:50.000 And he's like, Let me finish the story. 00:07:50.639 --> 00:07:54.800 So he goes on and tells the story, but I already knew the punchline, obviously, because I knew that. 00:07:55.040 --> 00:07:56.560 And he's like, How did you figure that out? 00:07:56.639 --> 00:08:07.920 And I was hello, we come from a family that my mother speaking Spanish speaking, and my mother has an accent, so we hear weird words all the time.

00:08:08.079 --> 00:08:09.600 So why wouldn't he know that? 00:08:09.920 --> 00:08:12.959 Like, why my question was like, dude, why didn't you know that? 00:08:13.120 --> 00:08:21.920 So that's kind of funny, and also he does this job in Texas where there is a large population of Spanish-speaking people, right? 00:08:22.639 --> 00:08:24.079 I'm surprised he didn't catch up. 00:08:24.480 --> 00:08:25.279 That's what I said. 00:08:25.439 --> 00:08:26.399 I was like, huh. 00:08:26.480 --> 00:08:27.439 But that's what was so bad. 00:08:27.759 --> 00:08:31.839 He heard chicken bread right off, and then that it was stuck on hungry man. 00:08:32.000 --> 00:08:33.200 And who makes chicken bread? 00:08:33.679 --> 00:08:34.240 I don't even know. 00:08:34.320 --> 00:08:35.279 I want to know what that is. 00:08:35.679 --> 00:08:37.440 What is chicken bread? 00:08:38.240 --> 00:08:44.320 I'm envisioning some sort of freeze-dried chicken pulverized into uh flour. 00:08:44.480 --> 00:08:45.039 Oh, jeez. 00:08:45.200 --> 00:08:46.080 That's wrong picture. 00:08:49.679 --> 00:08:52.639 I was just thinking of some bread, not some chicken on top. 00:08:54.240 --> 00:08:55.759 Pulverizing chicken. 00:08:55.840 --> 00:08:56.879 Oh my god. 00:08:59.039 --> 00:09:00.320 Let all that aggression out. 00:09:01.200 --> 00:09:02.720 No, it's not aggression. 00:09:02.799 --> 00:09:06.320 I'm talking about like high protein, healthy food here. 00:09:06.960 --> 00:09:09.039 Using protein flour. 00:09:09.200 --> 00:09:10.559 That's what I'm thinking of. 00:09:10.799 --> 00:09:12.320 I'm thinking of chicken on pizza. 00:09:12.399 --> 00:09:15.279 Yeah, you're the totally chicken bread. 00:09:15.440 --> 00:09:15.919 Me too! 00:09:16.639 --> 00:09:17.360 Chicken bread. 00:09:17.519 --> 00:09:18.559 Chicken bread, man. 00:09:18.720 --> 00:09:19.360 Yeah. 00:09:19.679 --> 00:09:25.840 I mean, my mom has done like a lot of like growing over the years, and I remember I was like probably a freshman in high school. 00:09:25.919 --> 00:09:30.080 My brother played baseball, and um, he was a senior, and we were at a baseball game. 00:09:30.159 --> 00:09:32.399 And mind you, the stands were pretty full. 00:09:32.559 --> 00:09:35.600 Like they were like for a high school game, they were pretty full. 00:09:35.840 --> 00:09:40.320 And I don't remember what was happening, and I said, Oh man, we need a grand slam. 00:09:40.480 --> 00:09:44.399 And my mom got angry, like, so mad at me. 00:09:44.639 --> 00:09:46.080 She's like, not now. 00:09:46.399 --> 00:09:51.600 And I was like, Well, actually, that would be the perfect time because then we would be ahead. 00:09:51.759 --> 00:09:56.559 Like, I was like, Yeah, right now, and she's like, No, not now. 00:09:56.799 --> 00:10:01.279 And I was like, Yeah, like I really think, and she's like, I am not ready for it. 00:10:01.360 --> 00:10:03.360 And I'm like, who cares if you're ready? 00:10:04.799 --> 00:10:08.080 No, I am not ready for a grandson, yeah, exactly. 00:10:08.159 --> 00:10:10.320 I was like, who cares if you're ready for it or not? 00:10:10.399 --> 00:10:14.399 And so we went back and forth about this, and finally I was like, What did you hear? 00:10:14.639 --> 00:10:23.759 Because clearly we are not on the same page, and she heard grandson, and so she thought that I was pregnant. 00:10:24.000 --> 00:10:25.519 We need a grandson, yeah. 00:10:25.759 --> 00:10:26.480 How old were you? 00:10:26.720 --> 00:10:28.720 I was like freshman, so 15, 16. 00:10:29.279 --> 00:10:32.879 Oh my god, and she's thinking, no, yeah, not now. 00:10:33.120 --> 00:10:33.919 Not now. 00:10:34.799 --> 00:10:36.480 No, 10 years from now. 00:10:36.799 --> 00:10:37.679 Maybe. 00:10:38.320 --> 00:10:39.440 Oh my goodness. 00:10:39.600 --> 00:10:44.960 Yeah, so we've done that a lot of times, but she just like she heard what she and she couldn't get it out. 00:10:45.039 --> 00:10:48.159 So I guess I mean there's misunderstandings all the time. 00:10:48.320 --> 00:10:58.000 So that's actually the same things happened to me because my family's, you know, my dad's first language is first language is Korean, my mom's first language is Japanese. 00:10:58.159 --> 00:10:58.559 Oh goodness. 00:10:58.879 --> 00:11:02.080 So like growing up, neither of them spoke very good English. 00:11:02.480 --> 00:11:10.080 I once got in trouble because um my brother and I both did because one of us said um we're freaking out. 00:11:10.480 --> 00:11:13.279 And he was like, freaking. 00:11:13.919 --> 00:11:15.440 Are you are you swearing? 00:11:15.600 --> 00:11:17.039 Are you cursing in front of me? 00:11:17.120 --> 00:11:22.480 And we got in big trouble, but then I had to kind of be like, No, dad, we're freaking out. 00:11:22.639 --> 00:11:24.799 Like, I don't think you understand what we're saying. 00:11:24.960 --> 00:11:25.919 We're freaking out. 00:11:26.399 --> 00:11:29.519 I'm freaking out even more now because I'm in trouble. 00:11:29.919 --> 00:11:38.240 I can imagine that would be very difficult for someone who's not an English first language speaker because so many people use freaking instead of the F-word. 00:11:38.320 --> 00:11:39.200 Yeah, right? 00:11:39.360 --> 00:11:41.200 Like, are you freaking kidding me? 00:11:41.440 --> 00:11:44.559 Right, and then you say I'm freaking out. 00:11:44.639 --> 00:11:46.080 And so he's like, What? 00:11:46.240 --> 00:11:48.159 Yeah, what are you doing? 00:11:48.320 --> 00:12:08.159 Yeah, and when I was in first grade and still learning English myself, my dad had, you know, he was in the army, so he was speaking English at work, so he like he knew more English than I did at that point, and so one day he asks me in like Korean or something, and he's like, Do you know how to say butt, like your your butt in English? 00:12:08.240 --> 00:12:14.639 And I didn't know how to say it really, but I I had heard it, so I was like, I think it's but and he goes, No, it's ass. 00:12:15.200 -->

00:12:18.000 And I'm in first grade, and he goes, It's ass. 00:12:18.240 --> 00:12:21.039 And I'm like, no, I think it's but and he goes, No, it's ass. 00:12:22.159 --> 00:12:25.840 And he was so proud of himself, he was like, I know a word that you don't know. 00:12:27.360 --> 00:12:28.399 That's hilarious. 00:12:29.200 --> 00:12:31.279 Did you go share that with your teachers the next day? 00:12:31.440 --> 00:12:32.159 Oh no. 00:12:34.399 --> 00:12:35.360 Thank God. 00:12:36.480 --> 00:12:37.600 Could you imagine? 00:12:37.840 --> 00:12:40.480 Well, you couldn't get in trouble because your dad told you to say it. 00:12:41.039 --> 00:12:42.320 That is true. 00:12:43.120 --> 00:12:49.440 I well again, mom, English is our second language, but she had heard the word turd being used. 00:12:49.519 --> 00:12:53.360 Yeah, and so she liked the sound of it, and so she was talking to her. 00:12:54.480 --> 00:13:00.080 Like it was just not a yeah, it's not a word you say, like even like the sounds aren't similar in Spanish. 00:13:00.480 --> 00:13:04.159 And so she she called her boss a turd. 00:13:04.320 --> 00:13:18.799 Oh my god because she didn't know, and she thought like she had heard it, and so I remember um her boss calling my dad and was like, I think you need to explain to your wife what the word turd is, and probably not call people that. 00:13:19.360 --> 00:13:20.320 Oh no. 00:13:21.120 --> 00:13:22.720 So I thought it was kind of funny too. 00:13:22.879 --> 00:13:23.600 That is awful. 00:13:23.759 --> 00:13:24.799 Your poor mom. 00:13:25.600 --> 00:13:30.639 She was like, I just like the word, it sounds so nice. 00:13:30.960 --> 00:13:33.279 It's rough out here for us not native. 00:13:33.919 --> 00:13:34.639 It really is. 00:13:34.799 --> 00:13:36.159 I had no idea. 00:13:36.480 --> 00:13:38.080 English is a hard language. 00:13:38.240 --> 00:13:43.600 So did you grow up speaking Korean or Japanese in the home, both in the home? 00:13:44.080 --> 00:13:45.440 Simultaneously. 00:13:45.840 --> 00:13:47.200 Oh my goodness. 00:13:47.759 --> 00:13:49.360 And then then learned English. 00:13:49.600 --> 00:13:54.799 Yeah, first grade, they just threw English at me, and then I was just They said figure it out. 00:13:54.960 --> 00:13:55.120 Yeah. 00:13:55.440 --> 00:13:55.919 And she did. 00:13:56.320 --> 00:13:57.600 And she did, because she's brilliant. 00:13:57.679 --> 00:13:58.000 Yeah. 00:13:58.240 --> 00:14:02.559 But uh also kids learn languages so incredibly fast. 00:14:02.799 --> 00:14:04.080 But yeah. 00:14:05.360 --> 00:14:07.200 I don't know that I could do it again. 00:14:07.519 --> 00:14:18.879 No, as an adult, I've been trying to learn another language for about six months now, and I think I can say uh hello, thank you, and uh I would like something to eat. 00:14:19.200 --> 00:14:21.360 So that's pretty good. 00:14:21.919 --> 00:14:23.039 Yours back in the day. 00:14:23.120 --> 00:14:33.600 I was, you know, it was much easier to pick up on a language, but if I could choose a language to learn now, it would be Chinese, so that I could complete my Asian trifecto. 00:14:37.360 --> 00:14:37.919 Aren't there other languages? 00:14:38.639 --> 00:14:41.120 I mean, there's other Asian languages, why Chinese? 00:14:41.440 --> 00:14:44.799 I mean, it's just it's so broadly spoken too and it's all right there. 00:14:45.039 --> 00:14:45.440 Yeah, yeah. 00:14:45.919 --> 00:14:46.480 Well, not really. 00:14:46.559 --> 00:14:48.879 Japan's not connected to anything in the Rhode Island. 00:14:49.600 --> 00:14:50.559 But it's close. 00:14:50.960 --> 00:14:51.279 Yeah. 00:14:52.399 --> 00:14:54.799 I get mistaken for Chinese very often. 00:14:55.120 --> 00:14:55.440 Do you? 00:14:55.679 --> 00:14:56.159 I do. 00:14:57.039 --> 00:15:01.519 Especially because my last name's Chun, and that's a very common Chinese last name. 00:15:02.240 --> 00:15:04.159 Let's just expose my last name on here. 00:15:04.480 --> 00:15:05.120 It's fine. 00:15:05.440 --> 00:15:26.080 I would like listeners to know that when you said that, that you would like to complete your Asian trifecta, you actually made a triangle with your fingers and slowly brought them together as if it was some sort of special symbol for the trifecta Asian speakers. 00:15:26.480 --> 00:15:27.039 To all come. 00:15:27.279 --> 00:15:28.080 To all come. 00:15:28.320 --> 00:15:29.279 We are one. 00:15:30.159 --> 00:15:30.799 The trifecta. 00:15:32.000 --> 00:15:33.279 Yes, exactly. 00:15:35.919 --> 00:15:41.440 Well, you know, the guy I talked about in the last podcast, he too spoke one of those languages. 00:15:41.519 --> 00:15:42.720 So did he? 00:15:43.120 --> 00:15:44.240 Oh, yeah, right. 00:15:44.799 --> 00:15:46.799 The one who wanted to give me a massage. 00:15:48.639 --> 00:15:51.360 He too might be part of that lumin Illuminati. 00:15:54.399 --> 00:15:55.440 That's so funny. 00:15:55.679 --> 00:15:56.639 A lot of grace though. 00:15:56.799 --> 00:15:57.440 A lot of grace. 00:15:57.759 --> 00:15:58.320 Absolutely. 00:15:58.399 --> 00:16:06.480 And no, I mean, I like I said, I to all of you who come to try and learn English. 00:16:07.840 --> 00:16:09.759 Because there's so many different words that we use. 00:16:10.159 --> 00:16:11.200 Oh my gosh, I know. 00:16:11.519 --> 00:16:12.879 It's just crazy. 00:16:13.360 --> 00:16:15.919 I still struggle with English to this day. 00:16:16.320 --> 00:16:18.639 I struggle with English to this day. 00:16:19.039 --> 00:16:21.039 You don't struggle with English, do you? 00:16:21.360 --> 00:16:21.519 Yeah. 00:16:22.240 --> 00:16:29.759 I mean, I struggle with English because of my midlife brain fog, but that's nothing to do with, you know, a language barrier. 00:16:29.919 --> 00:16:31.039 It's just my brain. 00:16:31.120 --> 00:16:34.000 But what do you give me an example of you struggling with English? 00:16:34.399 --> 00:16:37.279 Just words that don't come to don't come to mind. 00:16:38.159 -->

00:16:38.799 Does a Spanish word? 00:16:39.200 --> 00:16:42.320 I think of it in Spanish, and then I can't think of what it is in English. 00:16:42.480 --> 00:16:42.639 Yeah. 00:16:42.799 --> 00:16:44.799 And I'm just like, it'll come. 00:16:44.960 --> 00:16:45.120 Yeah. 00:16:45.519 --> 00:16:52.879 It's like I can think of it in every other language, but the one I'm trying to look for and do you find yourself trying to describe what you're talking about? 00:16:53.120 --> 00:16:53.600 Yeah. 00:16:53.840 --> 00:16:54.320 I don't. 00:16:54.399 --> 00:16:55.919 I just sit in the awkward silence. 00:16:56.559 --> 00:17:04.880 I did it to you earlier today where I was like, you know, the thing, the thing, and I just make hand gestures until I which I never realized. 00:17:04.960 --> 00:17:05.920 Like I never remembered what that was. 00:17:06.240 --> 00:17:07.440 Were you thinking of binder clip? 00:17:07.519 --> 00:17:08.880 What are we doing here with our hands? 00:17:09.200 --> 00:17:10.000 I don't know. 00:17:12.319 --> 00:17:14.319 That's what came to mind when she did that for me. 00:17:14.480 --> 00:17:15.519 A binder clip. 00:17:15.759 --> 00:17:21.279 That's what I was trying to- Oh my god, this is so I was trying to say I was gonna piggyback off of something you said. 00:17:21.359 --> 00:17:23.519 Oh like Oh, so it was like a phrase, yeah. 00:17:24.000 --> 00:17:25.279 So then I was like. 00:17:25.680 --> 00:17:26.880 I called it Pac-Man. 00:17:27.039 --> 00:17:27.279 Yeah. 00:17:27.519 --> 00:17:28.640 Because she was going like that. 00:17:28.720 --> 00:17:30.720 Yeah, I was making Pac-Man gestures. 00:17:30.960 --> 00:17:34.319 I don't know why, like, in my mind, this one meant piggyback. 00:17:34.480 --> 00:17:34.799 Yeah. 00:17:36.000 --> 00:17:36.880 Yeah, that's true. 00:17:36.960 --> 00:17:39.119 And some, you know, American phrases. 00:17:39.279 --> 00:17:46.559 I won't even say English because that's, you know, English have their own phrases that I don't understand, but American phrases make zero sense. 00:17:46.880 --> 00:17:47.200 100%. 00:17:47.599 --> 00:17:48.400 So yeah. 00:17:48.640 --> 00:17:49.759 Yeah, very true. 00:17:50.079 --> 00:17:52.559 Lena, did you have a story you wanted to share today? 00:17:52.799 --> 00:17:55.279 Um I think you oh my gosh. 00:17:55.440 --> 00:18:01.119 Well, this kind of ties in ties in with my um failure to speak good English. 00:18:02.960 --> 00:18:07.839 Well, it's not really speaking good English, it's more of like a realization of what I had said. 00:18:08.400 --> 00:18:09.759 It didn't really click. 00:18:09.920 --> 00:18:12.960 Um so Amy doesn't know the story. 00:18:13.599 --> 00:18:21.440 So I was at work very long ago, um, and somebody asked me for help with something. 00:18:21.839 --> 00:18:22.160 Right? 00:18:22.319 --> 00:18:24.880 And he comes up to me and he says this all the time. 00:18:25.039 --> 00:18:26.640 He goes, Hey, hey, Lena, do you have a sec? 00:18:26.960 --> 00:18:27.680 Do you have a second? 00:18:27.759 --> 00:18:28.240 Do you have a second? 00:18:28.319 --> 00:18:31.039 And I'm like, Yeah, I'm always happy to help, you know, whatever. 00:18:31.279 --> 00:18:34.000 This time around, he asked me, Hey Lena, do you have a sec? 00:18:34.160 --> 00:18:36.400 And I went, yeah, I have all the sex. 00:18:40.079 --> 00:18:43.279 Lena, you have all the sex. 00:18:44.640 --> 00:18:47.279 I mean that that is wonderful. 00:18:47.599 --> 00:18:50.160 But why are you talking about it with a coworker? 00:18:51.200 --> 00:18:55.920 It was more like at what point did you recognize like did you realize he was? 00:18:56.640 --> 00:19:02.720 I made direct eye contact and it took us about a millisecond and we went. 00:19:07.680 --> 00:19:09.519 So um, did he laugh? 00:19:09.680 --> 00:19:14.160 Oh, was this someone like in a position of authority? 00:19:14.960 --> 00:19:15.039 Okay. 00:19:16.640 --> 00:19:17.200 Thank God. 00:19:18.960 --> 00:19:21.039 Because I'm like, oh my goodness. 00:19:21.440 --> 00:19:25.119 He's now come to me a couple of times asking, do you have a sec? 00:19:25.359 --> 00:19:27.839 And I'll look at him and we'll just start laughing again. 00:19:28.160 --> 00:19:28.799 Just one. 00:19:29.119 --> 00:19:30.240 I have just one. 00:19:30.559 --> 00:19:31.920 I don't have all of them. 00:19:32.319 --> 00:19:33.039 Just one. 00:19:33.440 --> 00:19:38.640 Yeah, or just say, um, I do not have a sec, but I have a second. 00:19:38.880 --> 00:19:41.920 We're not shortening words anymore around here. 00:19:43.039 --> 00:19:44.079 Oh my goodness. 00:19:44.240 --> 00:19:44.880 Oh my goodness. 00:19:47.680 --> 00:19:48.799 Did anyone else hear? 00:19:49.119 --> 00:19:50.400 Um, I don't even remember. 00:19:50.480 --> 00:19:55.519 It was so long ago, but we talk about it so often because it's such a stupid story. 00:19:55.759 --> 00:19:57.519 No, I can remember it vividly. 00:19:57.680 --> 00:20:05.519 Her Lena coming back to the desk, and Lena at that time sat next to each other, and she's like, Oh my god, I have to tell you a funny story. 00:20:05.759 --> 00:20:08.799 Because I'm always the one who's like, oh my god, I have to tell you a funny story. 00:20:09.119 --> 00:20:11.759 This time it was Lena coming to me, and we died laughing. 00:20:11.920 --> 00:20:12.160 Yeah. 00:20:12.319 --> 00:20:14.480 It was a good time when we used to sit by each other. 00:20:14.640 --> 00:20:14.880 Yeah. 00:20:15.119 --> 00:20:17.200 We had our little diversity corner. 00:20:18.400 --> 00:20:21.200 Meaning, uh not your unofficial diversity corner. 00:20:21.680 --> 00:20:21.920 Okay. 00:20:22.240 --> 00:20:22.880 Yeah. 00:20:23.359 --> 00:20:30.000 Um, so you had Gabriella, who is uh of Hispanic origin, you of Asian. 00:20:30.160 --> 00:20:30.880 Who was the other one? 00:20:30.960 --> 00:20:31.680 Was there another one? 00:20:31.920 --> 00:20:34.000 We were the only two in the entire office. 00:20:35.519 --> 00:20:36.720 Shoved in the corner. 00:20:37.039 --> 00:20:38.880 You were literally shoved in the corner. 00:20:39.279 --> 00:20:40.640 But it was a good time in the corner. 00:20:40.799 --> 00:20:41.440 It was. 00:20:42.000 --> 00:20:45.519 It tends to be where the outcasts are. 00:20:48.960 --> 00:20:50.319 It is what it is. 00:20:50.880 --> 00:20:54.559 And then people find their way to you because that is where the fun is. 00:20:54.720 --> 00:20:55.759 Yep, that's true. 00:20:56.000 --> 00:20:57.680 You you got a lot of visitors. 00:20:57.920 --> 00:20:58.240 I did. 00:20:58.400 --> 00:20:58.640 Yeah. 00:20:58.880 --> 00:21:00.559 People love coming to talk to you. 00:21:00.799 --> 00:21:01.440 Yeah. 00:21:01.680 --> 00:21:02.880 I don't know why. 00:21:03.119 --> 00:21:04.960 I fear people fear time. 00:21:05.440 --> 00:21:06.640 Apparently they are scared of time. 00:21:06.720 --> 00:21:07.680 It's your awkward nature. 00:21:07.920 --> 00:21:10.799 Maybe they're scared of me, but then they like to laugh with at me. 00:21:11.440 --> 00:21:12.720 Maybe that's what it is. 00:21:13.039 --> 00:21:15.759 They laugh at us listening to this. 00:21:16.799 --> 00:21:18.079 Yeah, exactly. 00:21:18.400 --> 00:21:18.880 That's true. 00:21:19.119 --> 00:21:20.880 Or giving them the platform to laugh at. 00:21:21.359 --> 00:21:22.000 Yeah, exactly. 00:21:22.079 --> 00:21:23.119 That is exactly it. 00:21:23.200 --> 00:21:26.880 Now they can uh uh officially, without guilt or shame, laugh at you. 00:21:27.279 --> 00:21:27.839 Yeah, 100%. 00:21:28.160 --> 00:21:29.039 And we hope that they are. 00:21:29.200 --> 00:21:29.440 Yeah. 00:21:29.759 --> 00:21:30.799 Keep laughing, guys. 00:21:30.960 --> 00:21:32.400 Yeah, keep laughing. 00:21:33.200 --> 00:21:36.880 And on that note, while you're laughing, please rate the podcast. 00:21:37.119 --> 00:21:44.720 Follow us on whichever platform you uh listen to us on Spotify, YouTube, iHeartRadio. 00:21:44.799 --> 00:21:46.240 Yeah, iHeartRadio, Apple Music. 00:21:46.559 --> 00:21:47.759 Or Apple Music. 00:21:47.920 --> 00:21:50.000 Um, but please like and follow. 00:21:50.240 --> 00:22:00.079 And um, if you have any stories to share, please email them to us at certifiably awkwardpod at gmail.com or send us a DM on our socials. 00:22:00.319 --> 00:22:01.680 Have a great day. 00:22:02.000 --> 00:22:02.559 Bye. 00:22:02.880 --> 00:22:03.359 Bye.