Something funny

Went alone to a Shanghai restaurant for lunch today during my 1 hour break. It has the cheapest noodle dishes I know from all the other venues I had been to. It was crowded so the service crew placed me in a 4 seat table. During my meal, an Aussie lady wanted to sit on my table diagonally. She asked if the seat was "free". I shook my head before she finished her sentence. She was stunned. I was almost finishing with my meal and clearly there were no one around me, thus, she repeated her question. This time I nodded my head and she pulled out the chair and sat on it. I could not help but repeat what had happened in my mind. It had never happen to me before in Singapore. People there never use the word "free", they usually use "taken". Then I thought about how come we never use "free" and I started to wonder what would it be like if we use "free" in the phrase.
posted by Estan @ 10:21:00 PM (GMT+08:00).