Off my usual beat but a humorous story from the land of intercultural marriages (my wife, if you don't know us, is Japanese):
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Our daughter has a tooth coming in. Me: "I wonder when she'll lose her first tooth and have the tooth fairy visit." Wife: "Tooth fairy?"
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"When you lose a tooth you put it under your pillow." "That's disgusting." "And then the tooth fairy takes it." "Again, the what?"
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"The fairy that buys teeth from children." "IT BUYS THEM!?!" "Well yes." "HOW IT CANNOT EXIST." "Well it leaves a quarter under pillow."
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"THIS IS SOME F*^#}ED UP RELIGION." "No no it's not religious more of a folk tale." "YOU SURE." "Pretty sure." "Because you drink blood."
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"I know... that's complicated." "So why does the tooth fairy buy teeth?" "I don't know." "So why would you as a parent do this?" "Tradition"
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Replying to @patio11
Wait, you can just drop "because you drink blood" in the middle of this story and not explain it
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I'm Catholic. If you were an alien civilization describing the beliefs of Catholics, "They think they drink blood" rounds to true.
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Replying to @patio11
Oh, alright. There's a world of difference between "They think they drink blood" and "They drink blood", though, I got scared for a second.
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