Feeling stressed with a baby coming just weeks away, I ran to the grocery store for some last minute dinner ingredients for my pregnant partner. As an anglophone in French speaking Tahiti, I can feel isolated. As I was checking out, the woman checking me out realized I was not a native speaker and asked in perfect english “you don’t speak French?”
This resulted in a short conversation as she checked me out exchanging stories and smiles, immediately breaking me out of the mood and to-do list I was enmeshed in, to remember how delightful short conversations with strangers can be.
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