QUES: God answered my prayers ! I knew that we would be working on our anniversary but I sent out a prayer that please , please could He make it a special one for me ? I am such a sucker for celebrating events .

Question with options: Why did the narrator pray to god to avoid work ?
ANS: The narrator wanted to enjoy their anniversary .
QUES: The other evening , I told my daughter that I would like to go to Er Chea ( 2nd elder sister ) in Sungai Petani . She has often told me about her eating there because her friends love to go there . It was too near to call a cab and too far to walk ... and since my daughter suggested walking all the way , we did just that .

Question with options: How did they end up geting there ?
ANS: They got all the way there on foot .
QUES: Although she did decide to stand somewhere else , that did not help so much . Eventually a federal police officer came over and started hitting people with a long stick to disperse the crowd . Everyone was gone in a flash except an old woman , who slowly peeled away her shawl to reveal her wrist that had been struck . I think she had just come from praying inside the church .

Question with options: Why did she stood where she stood ?
ANS: She thought it would help but apparently it did n't .
QUES: Maintenance guy came over to look at a leak today ( my charming older building has not so charming plumbing ) . That itself was unremarkable-- the interesting part was his language . He spoke in an English / Spanish hybrid that I have not encountered before , about a 50/50 or 60/40 mix of words ( favoring English ) .

Question with options: Why was the narrator not communicating well with the repairman ?
ANS:
The repairman was speaking a different tongue .