Comment: Kitchen maids step out to business and up to leadership
02 Oct 2010, 12:14 PM
Aminath Arif
It was 3:00 pm in the afternoon last Ramazan when someone called and asked me to do a translation. He said that I could charge for the work. I told him to mail it to me so that I could have a look.
What I got was a five page contract with legal terms to be translated from English to Dhivehi, and it had to be done by that night. I called up and quoted him my official price and he flipped out.
“Oh man,” he said, “you are crazy. I am doing this for a friend. Go to the kitchen. It is time to cook for breaking the fast.”
My mind raced! Would he have said something similar in the same tone to a man?
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