Jade* was the very definition of sweet.
Having migrated to Australia from India in her high school years, Jade hadn’t been exposed to too much western culture. Once in Australia, her parents kept their strict Hindu traditions, as well as her and her sisters, tightly bound in domestic family life.
In essence, she was the perfectly innocent Indian daughter.
By the time I met Jade as my work colleague in Tokyo, she had just married her Australian boyfriend. She was finally riding her ticket to freedom and independence.
An astute and diligent worker of our small yet thriving office, Jade was our telephone engineer and had the tedious task of installing and setting up all of our new desk phones.
In her quaint Indian accent, she called out to me before I headed out for lunch one day, “Grace, your phone is ready! I leave you voice mail message to check everything is working, okay?”
Not returning back to my desk after a frantically busy afternoon, Jade’s last words had slipped my mind.
Excited to see a blinking red light on my brand new phone, I picked up to take the message.
“Hallo, dis is a testicle, dis is a testicle…”
Instantly, I was horrified to realize that it was Jade’s voice. Such language! In an office environment, no less!
I pressed the replay button, thinking my ears were deceiving me.
“Dis is a testicle, dis is a testicle…”
Nope. Absolutely nothing wrong with my hearing.
The lewd message didn’t match up with Jade’s sweet and innocent disposition. In disbelief, I yelled out to her from my desk.
“Jade! Did I hear your message correctly???”
“Yes, Grace!” she called back. “I said, ‘Dis is a test call. A TEST CALL!’”
Phew. Just an awkward case of (literally) getting our wires crossed.
Ever had one of those out of context moments?
*Names have been changed to protect identities and cute Indian accents.
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Deb A - An Inspirational Journey says
Thanks for the Friday Morning laugh!! x
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Renee at Mummy, Wife, Me says
Love it! Very funny 🙂
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Lydia C. Lee says
hehehehe! (that said, I’ve been on the other end that – I said (in short) something about my butt to the waiter and a table of friends in France, and only found out when I said the same thing in my French lesson, and the teacher was “Oh, NEVER say that it means blah blah you ass” (I forget the exact thing, and what I was asking for in the restaurant). I rang my friend and asked why he kept letting me say it – and he replied “It was funny – anyway, we all knew what you were trying to say” (Did explain why all the waiters and kitchen staff kept smiling at me)
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Neets says
Thanks for the laugh this morning Grace. Needed that.
I worked in a recruitment job and one of my candidates went travelling for 9 months. When he got back he phoned the office and asked for me. I was standing up in the office with my headset on as he asked whether I remembered him. “Why sure”, I replied. “You’re the guy with the tongue in his ring…”
I meant RING in his TONGUE! Doh
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natalia familia says
So funny!!!
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Toushka Lee says
hehehe. Funny.
natalia familia says
That’s hilarious! This is not really the same, but a work mate tried to tell me once that I’d sent out a set of architectural drawing with the words “PUBIC TOILET” on them to the client. Naturally, I was mortified. But upon later inspection of the original file it said “PUBLIC TOILET”. What a joker. Have great weekend Grace!
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Lara @ This Charming Mum says
That’s going to have me chuckling all day Grace! Happy FYBF 🙂
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Emily says
Teehee! Too funny.
About six months ago, Ashleigh fell in love with the Pamela Allen book ‘Belinda’. Belinda is a cow who won’t let Old Tom milk her, so he pulls his biggest, fattest carrot out of the ground to entice her, and calls ‘Fat carrot, fat carrot!’
Ashleigh loved to say that all day, every day. But she put a glottal stop instead of a ‘t’ at the end of ‘fat’, and shortened carrot to one syllable.
Everywhere we went, I got looks of disbelief and judgement as people heard her saying ‘F*#k it, f*#k it!’
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Francesca says
So funny! I always think of the Modern Family accent mix-up with Baby Jesus and Baby cheeses! Have a great day 🙂
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Lisa @ Raising Explorers says
Love this! Did anyone else misinterpret the test message the same way as you? Thanks for the laugh to start my Friday.
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Janet says
I’m sure your Indian friend would have been horrified to know what you THOUGHT she said! Baha!
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Stephanie says
Cracked me up! How funny!
Eleise says
Haha that is funny! Thanks for the Friday morning laugh!
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EssentiallyJess says
Oh that is flippin hilarious!!!
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Becc says
Hilarious!
I used to work with a Lebanese lady who decided she would go get a hair cut and a blow job 🙂
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Baaaahahahahaha – that’s too funny! Thanks for the giggle 🙂
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Lisa Barton-Collins says
That is hysterical! Thanks for the laugh!
xx
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Love it! Great story and very funny:)
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Kaz @ Melting Moments says
How priceless!! I once made a Freudian slip when reading to my class. I was an enthusiastic new teacher, fresh out of uni, putting lots of expression into a short story of an octopus with magical testicles – argh, no, tentacles! Luckily, the home bell rang and I could run to the teacher next door to share the embarrassing tale.
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Fabulous Grace! Just the thing for an overcast, gloomy Friday 🙂
Finally making it to FYBF, woohoo! x
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Kylez @ A Study in Contradictions says
Bahahahaha! That is hilarious Grace! I find those sorts of things so funny. I am terrible with accents and it led to many weird, awkward moments when I worked in the city and had tourists coming in to the shop asking for directions. I just couldn’t understand most of them! It got so bad that I would just feign ignorance of the knowledge they were seeking and buzz someone else to come to the counter and help them!
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Hahahahaha!
Good one.
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Naughty Naturopath Mum says
You make me laugh pretty much every Friday! Thanks Grace x
Dani @ Fitness Food And Style says
That’s gold!!! Gotta love those test calls 🙂
Have a sensational long weekend my beautiful friend xxDani
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Rachel @ The Kids Are All Right says
Hmm…. a little suss perhaps that your mind went straight to testicle rather than “test call”..?
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Kim @ spirited mama says
Grace
Funny lady. And sweet innocent colleague. How could u 🙂
Once, at my family’s local Chinese restaurant, my eyes lit up when the waitress ran through one of the dishes – prawns, scallops, rettice … ‘rettice’, I wondered. What gorgeous morsel is that? And so I asked … ‘rettice?’ she said it again. I looked at my family who were now hiding behind their menus. ‘Rettice’ I looked perplexed. ‘oh lettuce’. I was so embarrassed and a little disappointed. I really did think it was yet another fruit of the sea.
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Lisa Wood says
That is WAY too funny, glad the mix up was all sorted 🙂
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*snort* 🙂
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Kevin says
Played Miss Grace. Having a cracking weekend!
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Haha! Thanks for the giggle!
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Haha oh my gosh!
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Emily @ Have a laugh on me says
Aww that is so sweet – and HILARIOUS! You never fail to impress Grace x
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Rebecca says
Hilarious!!
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Vanessa @ babblingbandit.me says
That is hilarious! I cracked up.
A friend of mine has an aunt called Tess who married a guy with the last name of Tickle. I swear to you it is true. So funny.
I have such an immature sense of humour!
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This is the second time I’ve heard this story from you and just as funny!
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