07-21-03 - 10:43
"You-wah leh-zur, so-o ni-ice"
"Leather?" I asked.
He was flipping through the pages of his Russian-to-English book furiously.
"Lea-thurr." He pointed to his cheeks.
"Oh, SKIN!" I laughed.
"Ske-en!" He laughed too.
Aren't languages funny?
I think in Russia robust women are the thing, because this guy wanted to take me home.
I won't tell Ben because it will just make him want to put me in a box and get me out only so often for his pleasure.
Or maybe that's just what I wish his reaction would be.
Maybe it would be more like,
Me: "A Russian man at work asked me if I was married. He then said my husband was very lucky and he wanted to take me home."
Ben: "Mm-hmm. Could you pass the remote?"
Marriage in all its wonderful, every-day, casual glory.
