Today I was at Target and I heard a lady behind me trying on sweaters and speaking in Khmer. I tried to ignore it because I generally don’t find it entertaining when I’m having a conversation and it gets revealed that I speak Mandarin and the other party finds it necessary to share the two phrases of butchered Mandarin they know. But then this lady decided to come over and share a mirror with me and I just couldn’t help it. I told her that the yellow sweater was prettier in Khmer and we ended up having a conversation about where I learned Khmer, what I was doing in Cambodia, how the woman with her has not even moved to the States from Cambodia for a month yet.
I hope she didn’t find me annoying.
