One day I got a haircut in Nairobi, Kenya. Returning to the AMECEA (Catholic
Bishops of Eastern Africa) Office, I stopped to greet the Secretary General
Bishop Vincent McCauley who was an American. He exclaimed, "Joe, you got your
ears lowered." Not understanding this particular English idiom, my good friend
the Ugandan priest Father Joe Mukwaya rushed in from the other room thinking
that I had been injured.