Made in China

小叶子

My parents are visiting us and live in our house. Because they don't speak English (although they can understand yes, no, sorry, english, china), we made a protocol for answering the phone. If we call back home looking for them, we will let it ring 1~2 times then hang up, wait for a few seconds, call back again. This way, they will not pick up calls from English spoken people and they can leave message on our answering machine.
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It's been working great until yesterday...
/ Z9 I5 n4 b( A) I, JA call came, rang a few sounds, stopped, then came again. My mom picked up the phone, suddenly heard caller speaking English. She thought it's not polite to just hang up the call. She was going to try to tell the caller that she is Chinese and don't speak English.

Caller: "hello, may I speak to..."
$ ]$ y; @5 A3 d9 K; eMy mom (oops): "sorry, English no, China"
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My mom (with blood pressure elevated): "sorry, no English, China"
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now my dad heard the conversation, he felt that my mom didn't pronounce China correctly so he told my mom in Chinese "not Chena, China".

) E6 w. k$ P: a0 I9 @" nMy mom was getting nervous at this time. Wait, there is a sentence very familiar to her came into her head, she said it out very clearly to the phone:
"Sorry, No English, Made in China"!

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