¿estan de vacaciones?
Are you on vacation? This is the question that haunts me, after Joo speeek Eenglish? Are you on vacation? I could be in the middle of buying enough food for a six course meal, and people will hear my accent, and ask if I'm on vacation. Or yesterday, in the taxi on the way back from Sodimac (Home Depot), with a six-foot-high shelf and 20 kilos of potting soil, not to mention lightbulbs, icecube trays, plastic bins and other assorted household stuff (most of which was for Stephanie, not for me, my house is already full of shelves and bins), the taxi driver asked us if we were on vacation. To which I responded, what would make you ask that, given what we've just put in the taxi? And then I joked with Stephanie, and said (in Spanish). We don't have shelves in our country. We come all the way to Chile to buy shelves made in China. It's cheaper than flying to China. So you're not on vacation? the taxi driver said. No, we're not on vacation.
I guess people are just trying to make conversation. But it's so strange, so obviously not the case that we are on vacation. And who would go to Home Depot on vacation. Lowe's okay. But Home Depot?
I guess people are just trying to make conversation. But it's so strange, so obviously not the case that we are on vacation. And who would go to Home Depot on vacation. Lowe's okay. But Home Depot?