As a college student, I worked in the evenings at a shop. On slow nights, my coworker Susan often sang along with the radio while we did paperwork and restocked merchandise¹. One evening as the manager was leaving, I expressed my concern to him about our safety, being two women working alone at night. “Oh, you’ll be fine,” he said with a wave of his hand. "If you see anybody who looks suspicious², just warn them that Susan knows karaoke.”

我是一个大学生，所以只能晚上在一家商店打工。我的同事苏珊经常在我们记账和理货的时候随着收音机唱歌。一天晚上，经理刚要走，我对他说了我对我们的安全感到不安，因为晚上只有我们两个女的工作。“噢，你们不用担心。”他挥着手说。“如果你们看到任何可疑的人，就警告他们说苏珊会唱卡拉OK。”