beetrock

“Living with AIDS has become easier but it is still not a stroll through a bed of roses.” Neither is my job when it’s full of quotes like this. I thought a description of a company event “bringing smashing success” was bad enough, but even that paled in comparison with the roses. I mean I understand the whole English-is-not-my-first-language thing. I often fall conscious prey to the instinct of direct translating my mother tongue and using American expressions I hardly know myself. And trust me - I don’t want to “put the ball in the wrong court.” And I would hate to “leave you hanging out.”  But seriously can we, so to say, “cut the craps”? Because, as we say in Russian, my patience is not made of rubber.