11.08.05

Category: dribblings

while talking with my Conversation Partner (from thailand) today she tells me that when she told people she was going to live and go to school in alabama they would all say, “alabama? but…why? it’s no good.” and she asked me why it is that everyone she’s ever met in her travels has scoffed at alabama. i told her that they probably had
A. never been to alabama or
B. had been to alabama

hee. i kid.

but she tells me she loves it here and i told her that yes, most people find it pleasant. it’s not all like the dukes of hazzard. we’re not all hillbillies.

are we?

anyway she said that before when she would hear ‘sweet home alabama’ that she really liked it, but now that she lives here she feels extra proud when she hears that song. i told her that i sometimes feel that way too, and then i asked her where she heard that song. and she was all, “everyone plays it.” and i was all, “you mean like, when you were in canada?” and she was all, “yes of course, i hear it everywhere.”
“everywhere?”
“oh yes. it’s popular.”
“right, but i mean, they don’t play it in thailand, right?”
“oh yes! that is where i first heard it!”
“no!”
“yes!”
“no way!”
“hahahaha yes!”
she thought my disbelief was hilarious.

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