I have to share, it is a shake your head while giggling saying "are you kidding me"
I work in a precinct that is in the heart of "little China/Korea" and get a lot of "you speaka chinese?" thus I have to use the translator phone which connects me with a translator at 1 police plaza.
A man walks into my office and asks "you speaka korean?" No. Get a translator and say "I am Police Administrative Assistant Interrante and I have a gentleman in my office who wants to file a complaint can you ask him what the nature of his complaint is? thanks."
Woman translates English into Korean and the man responds. I hear the woman inhale air and a giggle escapes. The man pauses and the woman translates korean into english for me.
She says the man's problem is this "he signed up with eHarmony for companionship and met a woman with whom he had a sexual encounter with. It was working out great until she moved to China for which they broke up over. He met another woman and is currently dating her. Old girlfriend has returned to America and wants to get back together with him which he doesn't want to. He wants to make a complaint against her as she is THREATENING TO TELL HIS WIFE about the affair."
I tell her to tell him that it isn't a Police matter and that he really has to deal with his ex and current girlfriend on his own. The translator does that and the Man responds at length for which she tells me that he "wants to know how he can get the ex-girlfriend to leave him alone and not tell his wife as his wife is too busy raising their four boys and has no time for him and needs to keep his girlfriends separate." At this time I'm choking because I'm trying really really hard not to laugh.
I tell the translator to tell him to "honor his marriage vows and drop the girlfriends. If he doesn't want to drop the girlfriends then get a divorce."
The translator tells him that and he says "thank you" and leaves deflated. Once he leaves the translator and I start to laugh so hard we both begin to choke.
I had to share. It must have been a full moon in new york city.
Kate