Me: Hello?I asked a Chilean colleague if piña had any context beyond "pineapple," and he couldn't think of anything. However, he did suggest that I was mishearing the guy and that he was saying "la peña" (the cliff), which would explain why he didn't call back after I hung up.
Caller: Hey!
Me: Hello?
Caller: ¡La piña!
Me: ¿Que?
Caller: ¡La piña!
Me: ¿La piña?
Caller: ¡Si! ¡La piña!
I hang up the phone.
The attempt to chronicle the life of an editor who needs to write more for himself and hopefully thereby find new directions in life.
Saturday, February 07, 2004
3:00 a.m. Phone Calls
I'm at work this morning (it's the time of year that requires lots of uncompensated overtime, ergo no post yesterday), but I'm a bit tired and not just because of the phone call we got a little past 3:00 this morning:
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