So...a white guy who has been here for a while told me a story that was told to him by the Marshallese guys he works with. Yes, back to the vagueness, mostly because I don't want to expose the white guy, and I don't want other white guys making the Marshallese laugh so easily. Its a resource out here that I am keeping to myself. Those last two sentences are only because I am white, the Marshallese don't have those hang ups. That being said....the story goes something parallel to this: There was a guy who found a hole in some Ladies house over there and was staring thru it one night, checking her out. I don't know what the Marshallese Police look like but they caught the Marshallese guy looking thru the hole, and called him out. He said "I was looking for cabbage rolls"....the cop laughed and said "No more cabbage rolls". I spent the last few days saying the parallel to "No more cabbage rolls" to some of the Marshallese that work around me. Without knowing them you can't really understand their laughter, their smiles, their energy. They have the best laugh, the best smiles, and they offer them up so easily, it is their best resource, well, at least that's a big one in my eyes. So I spent the day smiling, because I got to make the Marshallese laugh a lot...and smile
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