Monday, February 12, 2007

"maybe it's both" - an anecdote

so last night we were carpooling with another group of int'l students. i feel compelled to explain: most of them were white, and there was one mixed girl (black/white is my guess). anyway, so some of the white girls started arguing about this area called Observatory and whether its shortened to Obz or Obs. They litterally debated it for 3 minutes straight, saying well i saw it with an s here, oh well i saw it with a z there, and on and on. and then at one point unintentionally in unison me and the other mixed girl say "maybe its both". I thought it was a funny little example of how there can be more than one way of doing things, they can both be right, and how it just so happened that it was the mixed people that pointed it out.

1 comment:

Sandra said...

yay for duplicitous thinking :)