Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Katie has an abstract thought. In Spanish.

My most recent shift at the bar, I was unloading dinner plates at Saul's dishpit when he asked me, "Katie, tienes novio?" I replied in the negative, and he followed up by asking if I was happy.

I shrugged. "A veces." And continued, "Creo que tener novio es como tener un trabajo en la iglesia." (Saul knows I do children's ministry.) "Cuando no lo tengo, lo extrano, y cuando lo tengo, es como, 'Ay, por que hago esto?'"

Saul laughed. And then we talked for a while about the wife and daughter he has waiting for him back in Mexico, waiting, mostly, for him to make a lot of money and then quit this crazy scene.

"Septiembre, quizas," he says. And I say, "Espero que si."

3 comments:

Randomscrub said...

No comprendo.

KatieBee said...

you don't speak bar-receipt, you don't speak spanish -- what the hell am i going to do with you, andy????

Tanner Lovelace said...

¡No sabía que hablas español! ¿De donde lo aprendiste?