L and R

Some big blond guy with a deep voice came over to fix something on the house. I guess he's the guy that built and sold my mother her the house. He was talking to her about real estate prices, and she gave him advise on selling stuff. Then my mom said to him, "The seller can help you with that." He responded with "who?" To which my mother repeated, "Seller can help you." Except with her accent, it wasn't quite coming out right. "Who's Sarah?" he asked.

The dreaded "r" and "l" mix up strikes again.

Years ago when we were moving from California to the UK, we were busy packing up all our stuff, and the moving guys came to take our boxes away. We were using a special rapid delivery system that my mother kept calling "R.E. delivery." So I started telling the moving guys -- who were kind of sexy black dudes if I remember correctly -- "yeah, those boxes are R.E. delivery." And then they started using the terminology. "So are these boxes R.E. delivery?" etc.

Then after a few hours of this, one of the guys finally asked, "what does R.E. stand for?" I responded by saying that I wasn't sure. So we asked my mother. She looked confused, and repeated the phrase. "R.E. means R.E." Then I realized, she was trying to say "early delivery."

We had all been duped.

Oh, apparently this builder guy has a Norwegian wife. They send their kids to Saturday Norwegian school, just like how we went to Saturday Japanese school. He said Japan and Norway are the only two countries that hunt whale, and also Norwegian people take their shoes off when they go inside too.
Our older cat Osamu needed to poo real bad but didn't want to go while the builder guy was over. I guess he was shy.