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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FoodstuffsNow, having an english accent (yes I'm from the south and sound a bit posh) whould seem like an advantage in New York. And it is - frequent offers of naughtiness and the insistence from my co-workers that I should be working for a phone sex line instead of doing science.
However, it is not so useful when it comes to ordering my daily breakfast (not the only instance of things going awry, but the most immediate to my life).
Every day I order a blueberry bagel, toasted, with butter. Every single day and from the same woman. In the last 3 weeks I have variously received:
poppy seed bagels
wholewheat bagels
everything (onion, poppy and sesame seed) bagel with cream cheese - and yes, the man did say 'blueberry?' as he handed it to me
My own personal fave was: a blueberry muffin, microwaved and then covered in butter. It was the rankest thing i've ever tried. And yet 2 days later I stood next to someone who voluntarily ordered it.
Crazy Yanks.
(, Fri 7 Oct 2005, 19:28, Reply)
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