I make funny – Page 21

So you think it’s funny… To let your four-year old pee on the seat in the women’s bathroom

I think this “funny” business may become a regular feature. I completely understand the impulse of not letting your kid wander into the men’s bathroom all by himself. The men’s bathroom is an eerie place to me too – like Easter Island with plumbing. I’m one of those sexist women who sometimes wonders if guysContinue reading “So you think it’s funny… To let your four-year old pee on the seat in the women’s bathroom”

Where the sheep are sheep

And the boys are nervous. I doubt this will be another slice of parody genius akin to “Hot Fuzz,” but a girl can dream.

So you think it’s funny that I speak a foreign language in public.

Let’s see now. Here are the things I find funny about you: The fact that you pointed and laughed and elbowed your friend when I was talking on the phone to my auntie, because if I was going to make fun of a person for being foreign, I probably wouldn’t do it while simultaneously admittingContinue reading “So you think it’s funny that I speak a foreign language in public.”

When I came to this country

Science, Fiction

Ever since I’ve started telling my friends that I’m stuck in a parallel universe, they’ve begun to act strangely in my presence. They giggle nervously, and scamper away to the opposite end of the couch. They turn up the volume on “Grey’s Anatomy” and their eyes plead with me to talk about anything else instead,Continue reading “Science, Fiction”