"You're shorts are too loud"

3/28/2012

Wednesday. Today I pretty much worked on a paper all day. We have a paper due on Friday in my Indigenous History Culture and Identity class. We have to pick an Aboriginal and write about them and how they have influenced Australia culture and how Australians view aboriginals. So that paper took me a while.

While I was at the library, A guy (Aussie) came in wearing a tank top that faded from white to hot pink at the bottom. Then he was wearing shorts that were also hot pink. And his tennis shoes were neon orange. This guy was rocking it. A few minutes later, a girl came in and she apparently knew hot pink shorts man. She accidently bumped into the wall with her bag, causing a little noise. Hot pink shorts name whispered to her: 

“Shh! You’re being too loud!”

To which she responded, “You’re shorts are too loud,”

I thought this was clever, so I laughed a little to what I thought was myself.

Hot pink shorts man said, “That’s not funny,”

And the girl pointed at me and said, “Well she thought it was funny,”

Whoa, lady. Why you gotta drag me into this?

Hot pink shorts man: “Yeah, well she’s American. Of course she thinks it’s funny,”

Whoa, hot pink shorts man, how do you know I’m American? And what do you mean ‘of course she thinks it’s funny,’? I just call ‘em like I see ‘em, bud.

Then doubting himself he said, “wait, you are American right?,”

I considered putting on my worst Aussie accent and pretending that I wasn’t American. Than I thought it would be much less humiliating if I just confirmed my nationality.

My ASC friends Joel and Ronnie were in a play that is showing tonight and tomorrow. They invited me to go, and since I was on campus so late anyway, I just stuck around for it. When I finished at the library, I wasn’t really sure where to go for the play. I knew I needed to buy a ticket but I didn’t know where to do that. I asked a girl, whose name is Lauren (Aussie) if she knew where I needed to go. She showed me where to go and we ended up chatting and then she decided that she wanted to see the play too. When we went up to the theater/classroom that the play was in, I ran into the funny girl from the library. Turns out her name is Faith and she knew Lauren, so they started talking. When Lauren introduced me, Faiths first words were, “You laughed at my joke!”

Yes. Yes I did Faith.

After the play I waited for Ronnie and Joel to change and then we were able to take the bus back together. Long day. But a good day.