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Friday, September 10, 2010 |
Do You Have a Life?   
Date: Sent Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Category: None | Rating: 2.09/5 (209 votes)
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Have you ever been embarrassed by misunderstanding something somebody said?
It happened to me a few days ago.
I was on a public bus. I was bored, so I was playing Tetris on my cell phone. An elderly woman was sitting across from me, and I heard her ask, "Do
you have a life?"
I guessed she was making a snide remark about my not having anything better to do on the bus than to play a silly little game on a electronic device,
but I didn't dare use a snide response. So I just said, "Yes, I do."
Then she responded, "Where is it?"
I supposed that this was either an odd way to articulate her disbelief in my having a life, or some weird sort of philosophical catechism regarding
life. I had trouble answering, but I said, "Uh ... that's a hard question to answer. It isn't a physical object of which you can pinpoint the
location." I didn't say much more about it, because I didn't want to get into a religious discussion of the location of life with her.
Then she replied in the way I least expected, "Yeah, whatever. Can I borrow it for a sec?"
I thought it was extremely odd for her to ask to borrow my life. It also piqued my curiosity about her intentions. So I said, "Er ... how would you
propose I do that?"
"Look, just give it to me, I'll use it for a little bit and give it back to you."
I figured that before she chanted some incantation directing spirits to temporarily donate my life, I would at least find out why she wanted my life.
So I ask just that, "What do you want my life for?"
She gave me a puzzled look.
From our following discourse, which I do not remember very well, I found out that she was actually asking me if I had a cigarette lighter. ("Do you
have a light?")
I can only imagine how odd my responses seemed to her.
Received from Peter of the Corn.
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