I Am From Where???

So I know these three girls who are the best of friends... for names sake we will call the Pinky, Brain and Larry. On the day that I met Pinky and Larry we were just sitting around having fun and then we got into the topic of origin. Pinky... and I chose for ger to be Pinky for a very specific reason and it is as follows... Pinky was very excited and said something along the lines of, "Oh I know where you are from... Wait do not tell me... I know it starts with a 'P.'" She stopped for a moment and then thought deep and hard about this. Then she blurted out... "Singapore" as if it was some great epiphany. That's what we had. She is trying to think of a country name that starts with a P and in a great eureka moment she comes up with Singapore.

After laughing my ass off she realized that Singapore does not start with a P as she had assumed. It's not as if the "Singa" is silent. She was amused with herself and much as I was amused.

Fast forward...

We have been joking about this for the longest time... So when an invitation for a party came it read "One Singaporean." The party was being held in one of the whitest areas of the county. Seriously if you are in this area you have to be playing "Alan Jackson" or "Garth Brooks" because that is all that is heard in this area. With my dark skin, I am only allowed in that neighborhood with someone to vouch for me or with a lawn mower. I had someone to vouch for me. Plus the invitation was like a passport into the town. When I got there, there was loud music coming from the back yard. And it was not from the good folks of "Brooks & Dunn." No it was some loud salsa music that you usually hear coming out of some Honda Civic. When I go out of the car I decided right then and there that for the rest of the day I was from Singapore. There was no way that I was going to own up to this sort of thing. If anyone from the party asked me where I was from, I was going to say Singapore with out even thinking about it.

The best part was that during the party, the girl who I will call Larry started talking about where I was from. She was just joking around. But in the end she was talking about Singapore and she was talking about where Singapore was and then in all seriousness says that Singapore is in Europe... For those who are not in the know... You should be made aware that Singapore is in south east asia.

So I sat at the party struggling to pretend that I was Singaporean and that I did not know salsa music. I was really afraid someone was going to ask me where I was from. Thankfully no one asked...


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