Ever Wonder How ‘The Middle Finger’ Got a Bad Rap? Probably Like This.
Posted on February 26, 2010
Filed Under Daily, Life With The Boss, Life in L.A. | 12 Comments
Edit after publish: While on the phone with The Boss this afternoon, he said I called him a “Boke,” not a “Bowkah.”
Noted. Thank you, my love.
The Boss and I got into a fight. Over an imaginary word. That I made up.
But it wasn’t my fault. Well, maybe it kind of was.
He was disturbing me (read: poking, pinching, trying to measure my biceps) while I was trying to live a normal, peaceful life. I tried to take the civil route, the higher road, solve our marital conflict with the best of Islamic manners.
But then things got messy.
Me: Can you please not bother?
The Boss: No.
Me: I’m trying to sit and not be bothered.
The Boss: Okay.
Me: You are still bothering me.
The Boss: No I’m not. I’m just trying to do something.
Me: You are REALLY bothering me now.
The Boss: Okay, I’ll stop.
Me: When?
The Boss: When I’m done.
Me: Can you please leave me alone?
The Boss: No.
Me: AHHHH! NOOOO! STOP! YOU ARE BEING SUCH A BOKE!
The Boss: Don’t call me that! YOU’RE A BOKE!
Me: You are!
The Boss: YOU ARE!
And then he got up to change out of his work clothes, and shower. A few minutes later, he came out of the bathroom, looked straight at me and yells, “YOU ARE A BOKE!” and I was all, “That is SO mean. Why do you have to say hurtful things?” and he goes, “Oops…well…you said it first, and I thought we were joking around,” and I go, “You think I’d call you a BOKE as a joke?” and he’s like, “Well I called you one as a joke,” and I go, “NO ONE IS JOKING. If you act like a BOKE, I will call you a BOKE! And the LAST person in this room, and on this earth, who could ever possibly be a BOKE is ME!”
The Boss went to the closet, got changed, and then came out into the living room where our mutual silent treatments met face-to-face. A few minutes later he goes, “Maybe we shouldn’t call each other mean names anymore,” and I go, “Yeah, it was pretty mean that you called me that,” and he’s like, “But you called me it first,” and I’m like, “You called me it second, and the jury remembers closing arguments, so the last thing the Universe heard you say to me was ‘You are a BOKE!‘, and that was mean.”
It was quiet for a moment, and then The Boss goes, “What does that mean anyway?” and I go, “I don’t know, but it sounds mean.”
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You mean a bad rep? Or is that a play on words? Yes, it sounds mean and I’ll remember to use it the next time if I absolutely have to.
PS. Check out New York this morning on my blog hehe. You’re so darn lucky you’re in LA.
LOL you two are comical mashaAllah
Lool. hey if you said the word, then its real! The amount of words i make up!!!
You and The Boss are so cute together!
Hey this is totally weird. I JUST heard a long story on the radio that the ‘middle’ finger actually came from archers in like 15th? century. It was to show that they could still shoot their bows after a duel..or fight..or match..whatever you call it.
In Europe, the storyteller said that they often flick you off with two or three(?) fingers..which he thought was a wave for like two weeks until someone explained that he was driving like a..well, you get the idea.
P.S. I thought you were saying “bloak” like from the Brits.
The two fingers showed with the palm in is the Brit version of the middle finger. Which is why I get so put off when I see some indo-english hijabi sisters holding up the same gesture in their hijabi pictures.
Very disturbing.
I thought you wrote ‘BOWKAH’ first.Don’t know why you changed it to ‘Boke’ later, but there’s a word in Bengali called ‘Boka’ and it means ‘stupid’.Woohoo on your ‘making-up-words-and-fighting-for-it’ thingy =D
‘Bloke’ is how the Brits say it
Which means man, the Boss shouldnt be mad
In Gujarati “Bowkha” translate into “toothless”
Awesome post btw!:D
haha that was so entertaining
This was def. some comic relief to my stressful week.
good stuff.