Monday, September 21, 2009

reason #1 brandon should not be allowed in public.

Although it was inevitable, it sure didn't take long. I have done something awkward and embarrassing. We were on our walk back the other day and noticed people picking the berries we had been wondering about.


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Are they poisonous or edible? Are they blackberries, raspberries or some unknown berry goodness? So, I asked them a simple question: Are those raspberries? Perfectly normal question to ask, except it came out in a British accent. I don't know why it happened, I certainly wasn't trying to do it. Instantly, I became an observer to my own act - "WHAT AM I DOING?!" My overcompensation to completely plain American English probably didn't help much. Thankfully they seemed a bit startled by my question, as though they had been caught doing something wrong. So maybe they didn't notice.

Thus went my first faux pas.

9 comments:

  1. this is the. most. hilarious. thing i've heard all day. :) granted, it is only 1:21pm here...but...i live with a stinkin 2 year old, so its non-stop comedy around here!

    crack me up!

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  2. p.s.--when you see a comment from "Hayley and Mike", its generally Hayley. :)

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  3. that's great! keep going out in public..otherwise we won't have any funny posts to read! Glad to see you guys got there and are having a great time! Looks WONDERFUL!!

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  4. is the pic on the blog a bush or a tree ???? look like mulberrys to me :) and bawwawwwawww on opening your mouth and inserting foot :)

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  5. Too funny! Love to read your posts. Keep them coming!

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  6. Right, forgot to say what they were. They are blackberries and the plant is bramble.

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