T5 When a Korean woman who in the United States arrived at work one morning, her boss asked her, “Did you get a plate?” “No…,” she answered, wondering what he meant. She worked in an office. Why did the boss ask her about a plate? All day she about her boss’s strange question, but she was too to ask him about it. At five o’clock, when she was getting ready to go home, her boss said, “Please be tomorrow.   You were 15 minutes late this morning.” “Sorry,” she said. “My car wouldn’t start, and….” Suddenly she stopped talking and began to smile. Now she understood. Her boss hadn’t asked her, “Did you get a ?” He had asked her, “Did you late?”