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by jasd 1474 days ago
My parents visited USA for the first time when I started working at Amazon a decade ago. They saw an Amazon fresh truck outside my condo building one of the days. That night my Mom told my sister that I work for some company that delivers groceries.

I'm from India and what she really said was "iski company sabzi delivery karti hai". There's a lot of cultural baggage in that statement but they sounded worried about my future :)

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My parents are from India as well. They are not the best when it comes to tech and gadgets. My Dad was super excited when he learned to share memes with me on WhatsApp. Before pandemic they were visiting me in US and I invited a very close friend of mine who works for Uber to hangout with us. He stayed for a week and it was fun for me to watch him describe his company to my Dad. My Dad "acha to tumhari company taxi chalte hain.." I meant its not wrong but I laughed so hard.
But isnt that true