Training Brian
Posted on September 19, 2004 by Ching under Life.
No Sky Captain today.
Brian and I just realized we have A Man on Fire to watch still, and I’ve got this homework that just frustrates me to tears. And the movie lines are way too easy to guess. Ugh. So there will be no Sky Captain today.
Anyway, we went to Wal-Mart to get some food for Brian’s nerd-fest on Wednesday. Note to self: stay away from the house. The nerd-fest I’m referring to is his Star Wars marathon that he’s been planning for the last two weeks now.
While we were at Wal-Mart, we got a memory card for Brian’s XBOX. We got the XBOX, a second controller and three games (NASCAR Chase for the Cup 2005, Star Wars Battlefont and Halo)at Best Buy. I asked Brandon, Brian’s friend who so wonderfully brought a copy of Battlefront from the back room for us to buy (even though it doesn’t officially get released until Tuesday), if we needed anything else and he didn’t think of the memory card either. So we were at Wal-Mart and as our cashier was going to fetch our memory card she tells this other lady in Tagalog to watch us. I tell Brian that she is Filipina and I told him what she said because he didn’t seem to believe me. When she returned she was talking to this other lady in Tagalog about when her break would be and stuff. I was trying to translate the conversation for him so we would be convinced but he didn’t seem to care.
At any rate, after we paid, I told Brian to tell her thank you. He goes, “Thank you.” I go, “I meant for you to say thank you in Tagalog!” The lady just smiled.
As we were walking away I was picking on Brian for not seizing the opportunity to show off his linguistic ability. “How can you be a good trained puppy dog if you can’t even do the tricks that you’ve been taught?” I joked.
I’m so mean! Â
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