Narrative

Short Script, Sweeper vs. Vacuum

                                                               Midday, In our Home
                                  
                                                        I enter the house to find my son, Tilo,
                                                      sweeping our carpet with a broom 


Me: " Hey son, what'cha doin there?

Tilo: I'm sweeping the floor.

Me:" I can see that. Why aren't you using the vacuum cleaner?"

Tilo: "I don't know. Josh just said to sweep the floor."

Me: "Why on earth would he say that? Is the vacuum cleaner broken?"

Tilo: "I dunno."


                                                 I go to the bedroom to find my husband Josh

Me: "Hun?"

Josh: "Yesss?

Me: "Why did you tell Tilo to sweep the floor?"

Josh: "Cuz, its dirty."

Me: "Why can't he just use the vacuum cleaner?"

Josh: "Why isn't he using it?"

Me: "Because you told him to sweep it."

Josh: "Yes, yes I did. I told him to use the sweeper."

Me: "By sweeper you mean use the...."

Josh: "I mean to use the sweeper and sweep the floor!"

Me: "Now I'm confused!"

Josh: "The sweeper is the vacuum cleaner."

Me: "Seriously? Why would you call it that?"

Josh: "I don't know. That's what my family calls it."

Me: "Oh good grief! Tilo, get the vacuum cleaner and vacuum the floor!"
                                                                         

Sayings I've heard this week

From my Mother-in-law in Florida, "Gooood Lawwrd, tell her to hurray up and have that baby awwready. Mercy me!"

From my cousin in Texas, "Wellll I'll beee, Bless her sweet hearrrt."

From my friend here in South Bend, "Gurl, you so stupid. What'cha doin?" (meaning what I did was really funny and she's cracking up)

From my friend in Louisiana, "Well, that oughta learn ya" (meaning you should learn a lesson from what you just did)

From me, and everyone picks on me for it, "That's naasstyyyy!" , "MmmHmmm." and "Now you know you need some Jesus!" I'm a Texas gurl.

From my husband, who is from Indiana, "We need to sweep this floor." (meaning with a vacuum cleaner) This has caused continual confusion in our home.

One word I always listen for people to say is crayons. Down south we say cray-ons like its spelled. Up here I usually hear people pronounce it like creyins. When I first heard this, I wasn't even sure what people were saying. Soda also seems to be a foreign word up here. I tried to add some to my Papa John's order once and the employee kept telling me about the different sauces they had. He didn't understand what I was saying until I said "what kinds of pop do you have"

East Asian Studies, Minor for IUSB Students

Homesick

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This is my Son Tilo and His girlfriend Nicole. I could do a documentary on their experiences of becoming teenage parents.

This is my sister in law, Lynn. She is from the Philippines. I could do a documentary on her Journey to America. What her life was like before and what it is like now.