His name is Oscar. We met Thursday night and he spent the night. We got together last night again and he stayed over again (I even bought coffee to have on-hand for him since I don’t drink coffee) and he just called me to get together tomorrow afternoon. I think he wants to get serious, even this early in the knowing of each other.
Or, it could be that he’s moving to Miami on the 28th and I’ll never see him again.
See, he’s from Argentina, and his English is minimal. The only thing more minimal is my Spanish. I thought initially that he was visiting from Miami and was going home on the 28th. But it might be that he lives here and is going to visit Miami on the 28th. I’ve asked a couple of times and we simply don’t have enough language in common for me to understand.
I find this inordinately amusing…I shouldn’t, but I do.
JOOC, Otto, do you remember exactly what Spanish words he used? I know it’s a long shot, but posting a few lines on the boards might clear things up, as we have no shortage of Spanish-speakers/knowers.
Best to clear things up. You don’t want to end up like me - I loaned some music videos to my neighbour because I heard him playing stuff I had on video. He was from somewhere in Africa and spoke very poor English. I could tell by the hugging and handshaking and smiling that he was very pleased that I was giving him my videos. I never saw them again.
Thank you for your kind wish that I shall receive the happiness I deserve. Jackass
And just for the record, it’s not like we sat mute for two nights. We did talk and I know a fair bit about him. I know what he studied in school in Argentina, how long he’s been here, what he does for a living, where his family lives and how many are in it, how many pets he has and how he takes his coffee. Not a bad knowledge base considering the relatively short timeframe. It’s just that one rather large piece of information we’re having a little trouble clarifying. When we get together tomorrow I’m going to ask if he has a compiuter and if so I’m going to suggest we do some chatting with benefit of online translation. Otherwise when we get back to my place I’ll have him sit with me at my computer with a translator site up.
Babelfish between lovers can be either really good or really bad, depending on how much of a sense of humor you have. We always wondered how our Spanish teacher could so easily tell the difference between a Babelfished paper and a paper that was really written in Spanish–
then we started translating things to Spanish and back (or translating things to Spanish and getting Spanish speakers to decode them) on Babelfish and found out why.
Otto, my angel, is it not possible that you are letting your desire to be loved override your good sense? I’m sure Oscar was a hot trick, but any guy who wants to get serious with you the morning after is sending a big red, CAUTION sign. Given that you have said that you two can barely even talk to one another, how can you realistically expect to have a relationship with this guy, even if he doesn’t move to Miami?
You deserve to be loved and cuddled, but you owe it to yourself to find the right guy, not the convenient or even the proximate guy.
I want you to have love, so find the one who unlocks your heart, not just your pants.
Oscar, tu vives en la Florida?
Oscar, do you live in Florida?
Apologies, my keyboard doesn’t have the right characters. Plus, since you’re talking about hooking up, then I presume it’s all right to use the informal tu instead of the formal Usted.
Oscar, tu deseas ser mi novio?
Oscar, do you want to be my boyfriend?
I’d phrase it more delicately, but since you don’t speak Spanish it would be best to just ask straight out and get a simple answer.
gobear, my pet, are you so cynical that you can’t believe in love at first sight? Seriously, I’m curious as to when is too early to decide that you might want to get serious with someone. And it was after two nights, so there. As for how I can expect to have a relationship with him, it’s something we’ll have to figure out as we go along. Every relationship has barriers to overcome; language is a big one but it’s not insurmountable.
So anyway, we got together again today for some shopping. Back at my place I showed him the translator website but we didn’t get into the issue. I’m calling him tomorrow and we’re probably going to get together on Tuesday.
I’m going to side with Otto,here.
I knew right away I was going to marry my former husband,before we had even had a conversation.
(and we didn’thave sex til we moved in together anyway.
