Ern, Maria, and I went out last night to the Playwright, played trivia, and met some interesting gentlemen. One took a shine to Ern, leading to the following exchange:
guy: What's your name?
Ern: Erin.
guy: Like Aryan Brotherhood?
Ern: No, not Aryan, Ern!
guy: Oh, I was going to ask if you have a spiderweb tattoo on your elbow.
Seriously, folks, who hasn't heard of the name Erin? Especially in South Boston, where approximately one out of ever four girls is named Erin.
4 comments:
You learn something new every day on DCoE! I saw a guy with that tattoo the other day. I thought it was odd but didn't realize it had any specific meaning. It appears it has a few different meanings, which sort of confuses things:
http://www.faqs.org/qa/qa-766.html
Huh. My favorite comment on that site was "it means that either you've annihilated something, or you love spiders."
eileen, you were the one that corrected him. i was happy to let him think my name was aryan, just as i was happy when he got distracted by a shiny object and went away.
love,
aryan
You're right, it was me. I couldn't handle the preposterousness of confusing the name Erin for the not-a-name Aryan. Too bad the word conjures up images of racist skinheads, because it might make a pretty name, like Arielle.
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