Archive for July 8th, 2008
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
“The Teller on the Right” by John Oliver Hodges
John Oliver Hodges
THE TELLER ON THE RIGHT
The downtown tellers are Filipino, not Tlingit
from forty to fifty-ish with pitted
faces and lipstick, a dash of mascara. They
know me. I’m the white guy who
strangely, when he speaks to them, speaks in
a Filipino accent. It’s what I do
wherever I go, speak in the accent of the person
I’m speaking to. [...]
