spazlabz
12-22-2006, 10:05 AM
one of my bosses was just asking me when I was going to be taking time off for Christmas.
English is not his first language so we were slapping back and forth about what days would I be taking off dec 24-25 or dec 25-26. I didn't really care which of those, I usually take Sundays off anyway so the 25-26 was an extra day and kind of appealing.
Then he asked me what day was Christmas on......
I thought i misunderstood him, the whole lost in translation thing
but no he was really asking me that
I said Dec 25 and thought well D'oh
and who is the ignorant turd in my story?
ME!
It turns out they celebrate Christmas on Jan 7th, a huge area does too and I had no idea!!
so how alone am I? did anyone else realize this fact, that other people celebrated the exact same Holiday on very different days?
spaz
English is not his first language so we were slapping back and forth about what days would I be taking off dec 24-25 or dec 25-26. I didn't really care which of those, I usually take Sundays off anyway so the 25-26 was an extra day and kind of appealing.
Then he asked me what day was Christmas on......
I thought i misunderstood him, the whole lost in translation thing
but no he was really asking me that
I said Dec 25 and thought well D'oh
and who is the ignorant turd in my story?
ME!
It turns out they celebrate Christmas on Jan 7th, a huge area does too and I had no idea!!
so how alone am I? did anyone else realize this fact, that other people celebrated the exact same Holiday on very different days?
spaz