Last night, Brian and I went to bed early. We had gotten up at 5 on Thursday and were going to do so again today. Brian's working on some crazy experiment that needs to be interacted with every 4 hours. He's broken it up with a lab mate, so one person stays until 2 and the other person starts at 6. Brian selected the early shift.
So we were bedding down around 9:30. And my cell phone started ringing. I'm generally wary of phone calls after 9pm. I've never actually gotten bad news after 9, but its just a cultural assumption that late night phone calls are either drunk calls, booty calls(and I don't get those), or bad news calls.
I got up and answered it. It was mom.
Mom: "You have a minute? I need a favor."
Me: "Sure, what's up?"
Mom: "I'm trying to figure out some slang"
Now this part would seem strange, but Mom's been an English as a Second Language teacher my whole life. Her students her slang terms, then they ask Mom what it means. If she doesn't know, she asks me and Maria.
Mom: "What does 'she ways saying' mean?"
Me: "What?"
Mom: "'She was saying' as like an sexual innuendo"
Me: "'That's what she said'?"
Mom: "Yeah."
I then had to explain to my mom the origin and use of "that's what she said"
Mom: "But I watched The Office! I never picked up on those jokes."
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Oh no! How could you reveal this!
ReplyDeleteMe...I'm going back to watch those early Office shows.
BTW, I asked my colleague Peter the same thing at the bus stop today, and he had no idea it was innuendo, and he's about 15 years younger than me...he just doesn't watch TV.
It was my favorite story to tell on Friday. Especially because our Ann Arbor friends make at least 10 "That's what she said" jokes an hour
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