OK we have been in America for some time.  We did the Southern California trip for the Amusement parks.  We shopped we cruised we saw the Grand Canyon and Sedona.  We did all the things a tourist would do despite this being my home State.  But I never gave the girls the chance to really taste the local flavor of Arizona.

So what was I to do?  Well I just decided now to play it by ear. 

It was a Saturday we spent the day out and about.  Very hot though couldn't really do much other than take in the Mall again and catch a movie there.  After leaving and a bit more shopping, I am feeling the pinged of hunger and I am sure the girls are too.  I tell them hey lets go get some Red Lobster.  But along the way Hatsuko asks about a place we driven past many times.  It’s a pizza joint were its all you can eat.  I for one don’t want to go there.  its like a Chuck E Cheeze place were you score tickets win prizes that are very cheap.  Now in Japan places like those give out real prizes.  Heck some will even give away a car.  Flat panel TV's, Laptops, Playstation, Wii's, IPods you name it.  It didn’t take long for Hatsuko to pout.  Then I realized its over 100 you cant really go outside to play and you got to let a kid be a kid.  I apologize to Hatsuko and say OK we are going.  She said no its OK, but I told her why I felt I was wrong and after explaining it to her she smiled and told me she loved me.

So we get to the one she really wanted to go and quite honest it’s a dive.  But for 5.99 per person they could eat all  they wanted and thank gawd they had fresh vegetables for me.  So they are playing Skee Ball and a few other things when a football team comes in.  And those boys can pack a wallop for preteens.  Now this is were it becomes Dangerous English.  There is 1 kid he's putting away plates of Pizza like there is no tomorrow.  And I am serious this kid is just going to town.  So much that his team mates begin to cheer him on in eating more food.  Then I hear the boys begin to chant and bang on the table "FINISH IT! FINISH IT!".  He finishes it lets out a mans size belch laughs his team mates clap and he says he is still hungry.  Now I have to be honest, this kid is obese!  And I see his parents, they too are obese.  So another plate comes it has slices and he goes to town.

Hatsuko and Kiyomi are amazed.  This kid is eating a whole plate of pizza slices and they can only watch as he swallowed it all!!!.  They are impressed.  Now the kid asks for more!.   MORE?  Yes More and another plate comes and like the previous plate the kids kept the  FINISH IT! FINISH ITI  chant going.  Then Kiyomi and Hatsuko join in but at first I am not exactly hearing what they are chanting until the parents are looking in our direction.  Kiyomi and Hatsuko were trying to say FINISH IT! FINISH IT!  But what they were really saying was FINI-SHIT FINI-SHIT!

I stopped the girls asap.  And I told them what they had said.  Both gasped and covered their mouths in disbelief.  I explained to the parents about how they don’t really know English very well and after hearing me translate they laughed and forgave.  Still embarrassed we left and it was silence all the way home.  But I do have to be honest.  my mind raced with curse words trying to see if there was any other phrases that matched so I can prevent Kiyomi and Hatsuko for doing the same thing in error again. 

But I bet you all right now.  Since I cant think of any the day will come when someone says something and they will pronounce it incorrectly and I will be like DAMN I should have remembered that!