It's Saturday and I'm in the kitchen making dough for tonight's pizza.

My wife is at the table looking at her phone, and asks, "2,500 won for 400 grams. Is that a good price?"

It's the kind of question she asks a lot. Price comparisons. The online stores usually list a per unit price, so she shouldn't really have to ask such questions, but I think she loves seeing me do calculations in my head. That's probably what attracted her to me in the first place.

This one, though, isn't a comparison, and it is missing a vital piece of information.

"Good if you're buying gold, not so good if you're buying flour." I have my hands in it after all– flour; not gold. I was trying to be funny, but as soon as I say it, feel that it perhaps came out passive aggressive.

My wife thinks that everyone hears her internal dialogue. I think probably her lack of context is more to blame for our constant misunderstandings than my poor Korean.

The other day, while again looking at her phone, she asked me, "How many 'K's are there and how many 'M's?" Taking the liberty to fill in my own context, I answered that there was one of each. It turns out she wanted to know if a video on Instagram with 1.6K views was more popular than one with 2.3M views. Apparently she was asking "How many is a 'K', and how many is an 'M'?"

While my wife thinks everyone hears her internal dialogue, my greatest fear is that anyone ever hears mine. I try to keep my mind purged of internal dialogue. Of all dialogues, of any sort, really. When in doubt, say nothing. I fear I said too much. But being preoccupied with the prices, Eunjoo didn't take issue with my answer.

"How about rice?" she continues, filling in the necessary context.

"7,500 for a kilogram? It's more than twice what we usually spend. But probably the going rate if you're looking to buy 400 grams of it."

"I don't want to buy 400 grams. I just want to know if it is expensive."

Maybe she did take issue with my answer. I have answered then, so decide to simply nod. When in doubt, say nothing.

Perhaps she was looking at bigger bags, but the base unit for rice is 400 grams. I know the geun is 600 grams, but I think we only measure meat in geun. I've even mentioned it before on my blog. Try to find it. Perhaps rice is measured in some 400 gram unit.

"You sure know your rice, Daddy."

"I know the price of rice, Lisa." I correct her. "That's a Daddy's main job, that and making pizza."

"I thought drinking beer was a Daddy's main job. I can't wait to be a Daddy."

That girl needs a little bit more internal dialogue.