Mr Showerhead's blog: "???"

For the last three years Ive been going  to my aunts house for Thanksgiving, and there have been a Chinese couple there (Penphen and his wife Lin) spending the evening with us. This year Penphen brought his parents with. From my understanding it was their first time here in the states. So they were experiencing things for the first time, simple things too. They dont have grass, so his mom and dad actually had my aunt bring out their lawn mower so they could cut grass. Penphen's father is 77, and Ive never seen someone smile so much while cutting grass. His wife didnt seemed as thrilled by it though. 

Neither of his parents spoke English, so there was a LOT of "can you translate this" and "what did she say" during  the evening. His mother noticed my tattoos and had to inspect them, I learned my Japanese tattoos are actually Chinese!  My confusion there was that I ACTUALLY BOUGHT A JAPANESE DICTIONARY to get these tats, so I would KNOW for SURE what it said. Well, on the plus side, it DOES say what I expected it to say, its just a different language. So either Chinese and Japanese use similar kanji, or it was just an awesome coincidence that it matched up. Well, one tattoo was exact, the other one was close enough, I was told some things dont translate over exactly the same way, which Ive heard before.

His mom and dad made, and had for the first time, both mashed potatoes and pumpkin pie. They liked the mashed potatoes, but dont think either one was a fan of the pie. (I think it was probably the texture of the pie, at least, that's my problem with pumpkin pie) The one odd thing was they felt the need to tap you as they tried talking to you (Im not really a fan of people touching me, so I smiled and beared through it) Penphen's mom and Lin were talking back and forth, and Lin asked me his mom wanted to know my age, so I told her, then she asked if I found Chinese women attractive (One, how can you say no to something like that? Two, if a woman is attractive, she's attractive, I dont really let ethnicity get in the way of someone being hot) Then I was informed that his mom was going to bring me a Chinese girl here for me to marry (Didnt bother to ask if I was dating someone or anything '_')  so THAT was brought up for the rest of the night.

There was plenty of laughing, and I had a fairly good time tonight. I was interesting to see people react to being able to experience things for the first time. I learned a lil chinese. which Im sure Ill forget by morning anyways :P