Timing it right (London)

Staff lunch at the Chinese community centre.  Bobby the raconteur was telling story after story about being a civil servant in Hong Kong.  

I said to the group (all from Hong Kong) that it should’ve been video’d as it was all so witty.  One of the staff said to me, “You seem to be able to understand all the profound Cantonese expressions he uses.”  

I said, “Not really.  I just know how to laugh at the right moments.”

(London, 2022)