Overheard in Chinatown

A four-year-old girl trying to teach her very Cantonese grandmother some crucial English phrases. There's nothing quite so Vancouver as the following exchange:

Toddler: "Okay Grandma, say this."

Grandmother, hesitantly: "O-kay" 

Toddler: "I need a coffee!"

Grandmother: "I nee a coffee!"

Toddler: "I seriously need a coffee!"

Grandmother: "I seri-uly nee a coffee!"

That kid knows this city like the back of her hand. Fuck "Call the police" or "Where is the ladies' room," she's got her Vancouver priorities straight. 

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