I worked in an office with a communal kitchen. I was washing my mug when one of the men from the office upstairs came in, waving his mug and said, “Where shall I put this for you to wash it?”
I didn’t respond initially because I was flabbergasted so he must have assumed I don’t speak…
"I couldn't tell it isn't your first language."
As someone who struggled to learn a second language growing up in a monoglot family, this meant the world, especially as I'd just started a job simultaneously translating from my second language into English, and they had no idea I didn't…
I was assigned a task editing a chunk of poorly written text with appalling grammar, with a note asking me to feedback to the person who created it on its quality. I did so, and he proceeded to tell me that it wasn't that bad and I'd obviously only worked on easier files before, he…
In my first year at comp, my then maths teacher (who shall remain nameless) called me stupid for getting a mental arithmetic question wrong. Any confidence I had was immediately destroyed.
I pretty much muddled my way through until year 10 convinced that it was utterly pointless…
As long as you're mine from Wicked should definitely have made the cut, and If I Can't Love Her from Beauty and the Beast (the ultimate unrequited love song.) And You Are My Lucky Star from Singin' In the Rain.
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