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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I pride myself on learning the local lingo.......whereever I go. I lived in Germany for a year and spoke the lingo quite well, live in Holland now and get by pretty well, and also speak smatterings of French, Danish, Norwegian and some Spanish, Japanese and Finnish at a push.
A few years back on a trip to Norway we had stopped at the ferry point on the northern tip of Denmark, and though it was 10am me and my mate were still on the sauce, so the only place open we could find was a truckers cafe where my mate order up two rather low alcohol Tuborgs.
After they were supped I told him I would go get them in as speaking some of the local lingo like I did I could secure us some proper ale. So Up I go to the counter and in my not very good Danish say "Hej.Tu Øl, vær sa venlig". The woman reaches for the two gnats pee-esque Tuborgs from before and I shot "Nej!" and start gesticulating at the dingy brown bottles of Tuborg next to them. Bemused, the woman serves me and I return to my chum pleased at punch at my language skills.
My mate takes a swig as I look on expecting a joy, and he does reply how refreshing this Tuborg is. My problem was I didn't realise they made fucking lemonade as well.
(, Fri 7 Oct 2005, 11:35, Reply)
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