I’m playing with Lucy in the living room. She is doing something, and I capture her with my legs and pull her towards her. Apparently it infuriates her, “If you do that two more times I’m never going to play with you again.”
Me: TWO more times?
Lucy: And I’ll never play with you again.
Me: So I can do it one more time and that’s fine?
Lucy: Yeah, that’s okay. (Pause). You could do it once more now.
Me: I think I’ll do it later, when you aren’t expecting it.
Lucy: When I forget?
Me: Yeah.
Lucy: I’m not going to forget.
A week later, I do it again. “That's the last time.” she says.
Even later, Eunjoo does something and Lucy gets mad at her. I hear Lucy say something in Korean to her that translates to "Don't do that a second time, or I'm going to get angry." It turns out that “If you do that two more times I’m never going to play with you again.” was Lucy mis-translating this Korean expression.
20 October 2012
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