MisunderstoodMy other half rang a courier today to get a disc sent over to a client. The courier company asked what it was she was sending. "A computer disc", she said.
Half an hour later, 3 blokes in a van turned up. They looked a little disappointed to be handed a floppy disc: they were all prepared to shift a computer desk across London.
Have you been utterly misunderstood recently?
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chthonic, Thu 6 Oct 2005, 23:06)
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Haircuts!Stusuts has just reminded me of the time I went for a haircut whilst living in Germany. I'd only been there a short time and didn't have a great grasp of the language. The woman cut my hair okay but it was all just a bit longer than I wanted it, as if it had been cut to the right length a few weeks earlier, you might say. So I said "Can you cut it all a little bit shorter?"
Now, I'm sure I got the German right: "eine kleine bischen kurtzer" for "a little bit shorter". However, instead of delicately trimming the ends, before I knew what was happening the woman grabbed some clippers and shaved my head. SLAP!
It wouldn't be so bad, but this was in Leipzig, the former Communist state, where skinheads regularly went round kicking people in the street. I REALLY didn't want to look like a skinhead there. I got funny looks on the tram for two weeks. Great.
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Olembe Refuses to write in this space, Wed 12 Oct 2005, 12:30,
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