How to properly put your foot in your mouth... In two lessons...

Yeah... For those of you who don't really know me that well. You should know that I am a very sucessful "puter" of foot in my mouth... meaning: I say the wrong thing at the wrong time... I just realized that the title should have been "In three lessons"... but for now I'll just tell two stories, since the first didn't happen in Israel. In my second week here I got a job translating websites. Which is great, since I can work from home and make my own time. However, the money was not enough... So, I got a job at a customer service for a carpet cleaning company, that serves NY and the sorrounding areas (aka three computers and a few phone lines at the company's owner house, on Nordau street in Tel Aviv... I know... Fancy right?) Well... I only stayed at that job for a week. Because after that I had to sign a contract for six months, and I would not be able to handle school and the job at the same time. The job was not bad... it was quite nice, after I got used to it... Well, since the company served NY, we had to pretend (by we, I mean me and the canadian/russian girl working with me) we were in NY. No problem being foreign, but we were in NY. One night, this very nice woman calls... and at some point in the conversation, she asks: "where are you from? I sense an accent" Well people... that's where all my brain cells decided they needed a vacation... and I started to panic... I forgot that it didnt matter that I was brazillian, as long as I lived in Ny... But noooooooo I had to screw it up... lol I said: "I'm from Ireland" HOW STUPID WAS THAT????? Are you kidding me.... My accent is the furthest away from Irish that it can be... And as our favorite friend "murphy" (for those of you who don't know him... See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy%27s_law) would say... of course that was the stupidest thing I could say, because the woman turns to me and says: "I'm from Ireland too, wow... you are not kidding are you?" - I had to stick to my story me: "of course not" her: "Where in Ireland?" me: "Dublin" (The only place I know) her: "Me too... wow" (Are you kidding me??????????) me: "But, I moved here when I was a kid" (Ok, how did THAT help... If that was true, I would NOT have an accent... I can totally picture my brain cells surfing in hawaii at that moment... DAMN!!!!!!) her: "Oh, me too" From that moment on, I changed the subject back to carpets... I barely got out of it.... Damn!!!!!!! lol Lesson 2... coming soon TO BE CONTINUED...