So I was in Israel for the past couple of weeks, staying with a "friend" and her family for her older brother's wedding and Passover.
My "friend" has a younger brother, much like my baby sister, lots of fun, nice to be around and a great conversationalist. Unlike my baby sister, this young man has a name I have never heard before, and after hearing his family call him by his name - or what I thought was his name - I too started calling him this.
Of course, what I thought I heard wasn't the proper way to pronounce his name. Actually, not only was it not the proper way to pronounce his name, it was an altogether incorrect name and one that may not even exist in Hebrew. It was, more to be exact, a name I apparently made up completely on my own. Go me.
Now, the dirty thing is, my "friend" and her little brother let me call him by this non-name for a WEEK AND A HALF before bothering to correct me. I mean, at the wedding, out with cousins, in front of their parents (who I think were just too polite to correct me and figured I suffered from a medium to severe form of retardation), if front of the in-laws, in front of friends.
Basically, my "friend" and her brother allowed me to make a total ass of myself in front of every single person I met. Now people, I've made an ass of myself before, that's certainly true. BUT THIS TIME, IT COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED!!!! Aarrgggg.
I'm going to believe she allowed me to be an idiot as a result of jealousy and fear that her family would like me more than they like her, which is a very real possibility. And I have decided to simply call her little brother Bob.
Man, I really love that girl. I'm going to make her cry one day for this.
3 comments:
Oh Janis, I know how it feels when people call you something else other than your name.
Oh Janis :(
She's probably cried about it already, but with laughter. Though that's probably not what you're after.
How embarrassing.
Get a life. Grow up & bitch up something normal. Don't put her down by saying "she was jealous that her family liked me more than her". Good grief! As if parents are ever going to prefer someone like you to their own child. At some point you will have to start behaving like a more mature person instead of a toddler. By the way, are you potty trained yet?
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