living with a foreigner never ceases to amuse me. today's conversation:
don: everything you hear you have to take with a grand insult.
me: huh? what?
don: you know, a grand insult.
me: no, i don't get it.
long pause...
me: you mean a grain of salt?
don: oh, is that what it is? oh...i get it!
still laughing. almost as funny as the time the don told me he didn't want to go out looking like a bump. my dad, who is really well read does the same thing. the last good one was, "you can't teach an old horse a new track!" almost right. got me laughing. and still it makes sense!
