Willow ,'End of Days'
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Okay, anyone got any theories about why my very nice but completely unintelligible Chinese next-door neighbor just tried to give me a box of instant oatmeal?
I'm vastly amused by the way she speaks to me so earnestly, and yet clearly has to know that I don't get a word she's saying. This must be what it is like to have American tourists in a non-English-speaking nation.
She took one look at you and thought here's a woman in dire need of instant oatmeal.
There was a two-fer sale Consuela, or she bought it by mistake, and thought you might like it.
It was just so baffling. "Here, have some oatmeal!"
WTF?
Maybe she's trying to lower your cholesterol? Maybe someone gave her oatmeal and she's paying it forward?
Maybe it has some deeper cultural meaning. Such as, if you accept a gift of oatmeal you have to marry her eldest child or you are obligated to save her and her family if there's an earthquake or flood. Or possibly she just bought too much oatmeal.
Edited because I no spell good.
Is there ever too much oatmeal?
I'm going with a definite "yes", Megan, especially as winter is over (however ugly Spring may yet choose to be)
Well, you know, if I'm going to eat plain oatmeal, I won't go the instant route.
Still, weird.
Okay, anyone got any theories about why my very nice but completely unintelligible Chinese next-door neighbor just tried to give me a box of instant oatmeal?
I'm vastly amused by the way she speaks to me so earnestly, and yet clearly has to know that I don't get a word she's saying. This must be what it is like to have American tourists in a non-English-speaking nation.
considers
I am your Chinese next-door neighour. Only less generous with my foodstuffs. And more given to profanity.