Anecdote #10: I used to work at a Mexican restaurant in Brooklyn owned by a Polish family. One morning, as I was setting up for Sunday Brunch, the phone rang. Since the owner lady and I were the only ones there, she answered the phone. After a few seconds on the line she screamed and fell to the floor. Her babysitter had called to tell my boss her father in Poland had passed away! Boss Lady was a strange cookie, although she was distraught and in shock she insisted on staying. I pleaded with her to call her husband or to go home but she refused. For an hour before anyone else showed up it was just her and I, not speaking and with a very sad doom cloud hovering. The phone rang again, and again she answered it. This time she screamed and began to laugh hysterically. Apparently, her baby sitter, being a second generation Pole, sorely misinterpreted the Polish message on the answering machine. Her father was in fact ALIVE! The lesson here is obvious. If your not fluent in a language, get a second opinion before you break that kind of news! I mean, REALLY?!