This is a few years ago. My lady and I were at a nice sushi restaurant. Now I must preface this by saying that she hates when I answer her questions in front of other people. As in, if she asked one of our mate what the difference was between an EP and an LP, she'd get angry at me for interjecting.
So here we are, sitting in a sushi restaurant. We're discussing what to order and the waitress comes around and proposes that we get a sushi boat.
"It comes with maki, futomaki and sashimi. It's quite popular" says the waitress.
"What's sashimi?" asks the light of my life.
"Raw fish" is what I wanted to say, but I held my tongue.
"Raw fish" says the waitress.
"That sounds great." she said
"We'll get that then" I said, slightly surprised that she was suddenly a big fan of plain raw fish.
After the waitress left, my one true love says "The English that the waitress used is pretty archaic, don't you think?
"Yeah" I said without really thinking.
Fast forward 30 minutes or so. We've both enjoyed our miso soups and the sushi boat arrives. As the waitress leaves, my girlfriend gets a panicked look on her face.
"There sure is a lot of raw fish on the boat"
"Well yeah, that's the sashimi, raw fish. You seemed quite interested in it." I said.
"Oh! Raw fish..."
"Why, what did you understand?"
"Roughage" she said.
Fuckin roughage. So there she was expecting a mountain of salad but ended up getting a whole lot of uncooked tuna and salmon.
