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I was surprised by the conversation between my colleagues today. There were five people working in the backroom for stocking the new products. As soon as Berle came in in the morning, she told us she had “a lot of sex” last night so she couldn’t even walk well!! What an embarrassing subject! And nobody was pissed off or walked away when she brought this topic in! They started to talk about their sexual life in public! This is a whole new thing to me. In Taiwan, we don’t usually mention it to others, maybe to close friends only. But here, it’s like a common conversation, and they even make laugh of it. It can be jokes and an ice-breaking theme. It was not an “evil” or embarrassing thing at all. I think they see it in a healthier way, talking about it like talking about what they had for dinner. So normal! Back to Taiwan, my conversations with my coworkers are always around our jobs! We never go anything further. Does it mean we work harder? Or we live under a high pressure that we even don’t enjoy sex?

 

Lara:Well, I have lots to tell. Come to my backroom now. XD

上班日記19: 女生聚集在一起,真的像慾望城市嗎?

    出國之前一直很好奇,外國的風氣很開放,大學生的生活真的都像美國派那樣糜爛瘋狂嗎?熟女都像慾望城市一樣大膽鹹濕嗎?問了在國外長大讀書的表哥,他說美國派是誇張了一點,但是確實是男女關係比較開放,一般年輕白人的感情是有那麼一點短暫跟快速。在內衣店上班半年後,這個女人國裡,我因為常常跟不上他們的對話,所以常常默默的安靜的聽,sex對他們來說,有時候是幽默的一種。

    上星期又是一大批新內衣進貨,需要歸類放進倉庫。因為貨品真的太多,又要趕緊把這週清倉的商品清出去,所以我們難得很多人一起在後面backroom作;不用面對顧客的時候,大家會有比較多時間可以閒聊。一大早同事互相問候”How are you today?” 我們的視覺顧問Berle一本正經地說” Oh~I'm tired. I had sex last night. See, I can't walk this morning.”她還故意裝一副很累的樣子,笑翻所有人。接著另一位已經當阿嬤的資深老同事的回答更妙,她感慨地說道”Oh, I wish I could be as tired as you. All my husband do is sleep, sleep, sleep.” 他們的對答真的要把我笑翻了,可是我一點都沒有覺得很鹹濕或色情,整個就是很幽默!有時候同事之間因為私下沒有交集,所以也沒有甚麼共同話題,這樣的對話,讓我們早上就在輕鬆好笑的氣氛中開始,打破大家因為太多東西要做而煩躁的心情。 

慢慢越來越多同事來了,倉庫也越來越熱鬧;新的主管很心急,規定我們的進度,要在有限時間內把新品歸好類。Kitty在補內衣到櫃子裡的時候,不小心打翻另一盒,整疊掉下來;他叫了一聲”Oh no! I have to do it all over again.”她沒有不耐煩,取而代之的是,她開始練習賣弄性感。她對副理說 “Can you say "oh no" in a sexy way?好笑的是,Sasha真的開始練習各種怪腔怪調的oh no~我隔著一條走道,一邊整理內褲、一邊聽到模仿安潔莉納裘莉帶有磁性的oh no(他沒有說是模仿,但當時我腦袋浮現的是史密斯夫婦的電影)接著兩人一來一往,一直oh no搞得我嘴裡也念念有詞的練習。外國女生的性感,還真是無所不在!不是你穿多辣的衣服,或者做多引人遐想的動作,一句這麼平常的oh no都可以表達的很sexySasha還說她會因為要工作跟出去玩而選擇不同內褲,上班跟放假的心情可是完全不一樣的呢! 

稍晚Jasmine也來了,堆積如山的內衣,20幾箱的34B真的要把我們搞瘋了!大家不講講話,真的會開始摔東西,光是34B這個大眾尺寸就把我們的櫃子塞爆了,大家只好聊聊天轉移注意力。Jasmine開始說著下班後要去昨晚去的餐館,她昨晚在那看到一個很hot的男生,希望今天又會遇見他。Kitty立刻附”oh~ bring condom!”接著Berle也幫腔”Are you eager to have sex?” 沒有男朋友的Jasmine居然回答”yeah...I wish I could have tonight~”他們的對話自然到我一直偷笑,因為從口氣中,可以知道她不是真的那種隨便的女生,他們只是真的太無聊、很自然的互相開玩笑。連看到來巡樓的保全,Jasmine都可以從前場衝到後面然後很誇張的大叫”Oh my god~that security is so hot! He's cute!認真一看,人家保全全身包緊緊的,只是例行性來看一下,我真的看不出他哪裡很"".....只是為我們煩燥無聊的工作增添一點樂趣。
    最好笑的是我們的head cashier Queeny, 有一次我放假回來,她一看到我立刻問”Did you have a lot of sex with your boyfriend when he visited?” 這種問題也太露骨了,在台灣誰會這樣一見面就問同事?他怎麼可以這麼閒話家常?我回答”No, my period came.(我生理期)”她很誇張又很大聲的說”What the fuck! Your period came for the whole week he's here? I'd be so mad if I were you!!!” 然後她不知道為什麼在心情不好,收拾內衣褲都超用力,我覺得實在太好笑了!她整個很忿忿不平、唉聲嘆氣,好像生活受了甚麼嚴重的打擊,會不會太誇張了一點? 

       可能因為我們在內衣店上班,所以聊這些看似是很平常的話題;但對他們來說性生活就是生活的一部份,就像吃飯洗澡一樣普通,他們也毫不避諱的提起。其實如果用輕鬆的角度聽聽,沒有我們東方人想的那麼不道德,色不色情在於講話的態度、跟聽者的心態,不用特地去分類,用健康的角度聽聽應對,其實也不用真的太認真的回答~。喔,對別人很eager的答案,也不需要太認真的評論,文化不同,開玩笑的方式也不同吧!

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