This weekend at our tennis center, a first-ever Mongolian tournament is being contested with players coming in from various states and Canada. I noticed there was quite a number of interested family members and fans arriving to watch the competition. A very young tennis pro was getting ready to leave for the day when a diminutive Asian woman of seventy entered the tennis shop. It was immediately apparent that there was a language barrier between the two of us. She began moving her hand around in circles and I was thinking this might be some type of Mongolian sign language. She looked at me quizzically hoping I was multi lingual. Realizing that I was not, an extremely panicked look came to her face. Only then did she utter perhaps one of the few words of English she knew. ‘Poop?’? She then said it again with even more urgency….’poop?’?. The language barrier was broken as I opened the back door and led her to the women’s restroom. ?
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