hebrew party tricks

I’m here in Jerusalem with a bunch of other people, but like to get into work early so am often in the cab by myself in the morning to come to the office.   The conversation generally flows along these lines:

driver: You working here?

me: Yes, in high tech.  Computers.

driver:  This your first time in Jerusalem?

me: no, I come here quite often

driver: you know hebrew?

And so I go off into my Hebrew Party Tricks routine.  I can count to ten, I know Left and Right, Good morning, How are you, please and thank you, etc etc.  And then the driver usually starts teaching me a little more hebrew.  Then,

driver: you jewish?

me: no

driver: you beautiful.  you married?  you have boyfriend?

And usually I say, no, no, not married, no, no boyfriend.  But now this trip I have had to change this statement.  It’s a little bit difficult though, since I’ve been referring to him as my old boyfriend for such a long time,  it’s hard to change back and call him “my boyfriend” again.  So with the cab driver this morning, it was something along the lines of

me: well, he’s my old boyfriend, no, I guess he’s my current boyfriend.  uh, yeah.  I have a boyfriend.

driver: he marry you?

me:  uh …

I’ve got to work on the “boyfriend” responses for my taxi driver party tricks, it seems.

Posted by Marie on October 9th, 2007 under Uncategorized

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