Ordering Chinese
by Carl Santoro
My family has accused me
of shouting
"Vegetable
Chow
Mei
Fun"
way too loud into the phone.
I've also been accused of
doing it
with
a
Chinese
accent.
I'm not Chinese.
And I'm usually soft-spoken.
Now, years later,
it is a family comedy act
that they perform.
They think it is hysterical.
It doesn't humiliate me.
I always get the message across.
It arrives hot.
Good one. I know how this goes. You very well defined a family dynamic that I understand. This one "arrives hot."