ROR

     I want to preface this by apologizing to any readers who are Japanese or love the Japanese. I urge you to look deep inside yourself and you will hopefully realize that this is actually pretty amusing. If not, this is a blog and by definition created to piss people off and create controversy. I do not go gentle into that good night (brownie points if you can name the author without googling).

     A few years ago our company was bought by a multi-billion dollar Japanese company; therefore making us a wholly owned subsidiary of said Japanese company. Like any good parent they drive us a little nuts, make us want to rebel, force us to keep them in the dark about certain things, force us to enlighten them about certain things, and overall maintain the idyllic mentality that we are better.
     Because we are owned by the Japanese we have a few Japanese people from the corporate headquarters in Japan working in our office. This brings me countless minutes of enjoyment. I flatter myself that I am pretty good with imitating accents (doubt if you must but it's pretty true). Despite this proficiency I cannot master the Japanese accent; however, I greatly enjoy listening to my Japanese coworkers discuss things in English.

      I was walking down the hallway to our customer service office, much like I do every day, when I heard some of my coworkers laughing. As I got closer I realized that one of my Japanese coworkers was telling the story. The only part of I heard; however, was "and i was raffing and raffing." Of course what he was say was "and I was laughing and laughing," but the Japanese accent changes Ls to Rs. From that point on anytime someone talks about laughing, or says LOL, or even when my Japanese coworkers come to talk to us in our office all I can think about is the raffing. I told this story to some friends of mine and now it's ROR instead of LOL in txts. Little did my coworker know that by telling his little story he, and all of his countrymen/women would become infinitely mockable to me.