I’ve been indulging a bit with Larry David’s famous show lately, which is ending this year. Curb has been quite big in my life as it was a staple of our evenings with my partner back in the early 10s.
It taught me so much English. They repeat every line four times! And it’s 100% conversational stuff that happens every day. A gold mine for someone trying to get into a culture and understand what to do in public.
Except for copying Larry. I never did, but I happened to be in situations where I kind of was him.
One time we were at a friend’s rooftop hot tub chilling and one of his friend had a daughter who dared me to throw her in the water. She was fully clothed. It’s summer.
After maybe 15 minutes of taunting me I sure did throw her in there, with a lot of laughs flying in the air.
Well, her dad didn’t laugh at all.
He was supposed to drop her off at her mom’s later, and now she was wet. The kid was like “I can’t believe you did!” and I was like “it wasn’t that hard, you’re not that heavy!” and her dad was like “not cool, man”.
To this day I feel bad and simultaneously, not bad at all. It was water, not battery acid.
Pretty, pretty, pretty good times.
lmao