Not sure if this counts...
...but the QOTW is nearly over now, so I'm posting it anyway.

When I was 17 I had my first serious boyfriend. During our relationship, I was invited to dinner to meet his parents for the first time. They were really friendly and welcoming, if a bit chavvy. They gave me drink and took me into the living room and we were all doing that polite conversation thing that you do when you meet new people when boyfriend's mother suddenly blurted out;

"Can you eat lasanga? I'm doing one, but I can always freeze it until tomorrow, we can get a takeaway if you prefer, there's a nice one of yours round the corner!" cue boyfriend going bright red and snapping 'Mum!' at her. I politely pointed out that lasanga was fine for me, while wracking my brains wondering what one of 'my' takeaways was. "Okay." She says. "I just thought it might have been a bit English for you." then off she went to the kitchen as if that was a completely normal and reasonable thing to say to her son's girlfriend.

So a little while later we are eating our (english) lasanga and they're asking me about my life and my family and boyfriends Mum asks; "So, where are you from?"
"Oh, not that far from here, I actually live on Blahblah Road."
"Oh, no, I meant where were you born."
"Oxford."
"... Oh." Couple of minutes silence, boyfriend and boyfriend's Dad exchanging looks. "So have you ever visited China?"
"I can't say I have..."
"No? Have you never wanted to go and see where you came from?"
"Um, I come from Oxford."
"But you must have ancestors over there. You're Chinese, aren't you?"
"Um. No."
"Oh." Then she stared at me for about a minute. "No offence luv, but what ARE you?"
"British... but I do have family in Japan."
"Oh, you should have said, I would have done you some rice."

I went out with her son for another six months before we split up and I still bump into her around from time to time. Once she told me to tell "my people" to stop harming dolphins.
(Melody was not PMSing on, Wed 7 Apr 2010, 22:16, 4 replies)

Ha ha
This is so funny, but so fucking wrong.

Ignorance is not bliss is it?

How rude
(Eeevil You are losers, Wed 7 Apr 2010, 22:52, closed)

Ha ha ha
Stop harming dolphins FTW
( @><|= w0nu!) or cunt to my friends, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 1:12, closed)

I'm all for
keeping harming them actually.

But then again I have an irrational fear of them :\
(Melody was not PMSing on, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 1:31, closed)

I don't blame you.
Fucking dolphins - "Never trust a species with a permanent smile on it's face" - Douglas Adams
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 9:25, closed)