Conversation

I was wearing a brown shirt with a print of an old couple, she seated, skirt flaring, and he standing behind; I always thought it was an African image. Recently, when I got off the airport at Albuquerque, this woman looks at it and says, "From Tibet?". I say, "Brooklyn" meaning I bought it in Brooklyn, and then adds, "Brooklyn market is universal." She guesses and says "Bengali?" because I guess I pronounced it as "univershal", converting s's into sh's like Bengali's do, and like linguistic mutts like me do. I guessed and said, "Si".