Shops and SupermarketsI used to work in a supermarket where the girl on the deli counter cut off the top of her finger in the meat slicer, but was made to finish her shift before going to hospital. You can now pay £100 to shoot zombies in the store's empty shell, haunted by poor dead nine-finger deli girl. Tell us your tales of the old retail experience, from either side of the counter
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 10 May 2012, 13:50)
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The clue is in the nameI'm in a shop in the USA. It was a Harley Davidson store, over the bay from San Francisco -- so we're talking sophisticated California here, not Pigfuck Alabama or Cleft Palette Louisiana.
The assistant is ringing up my purchases, and notices my accent. "So, where are you from, then?" she asks, with what might have been an alluring smile about forty years ago. "England," I reply. "Oh, really? And what language do people speak there, then?"
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(, Wed 16 May 2012, 12:03, 6 replies)
As an expat living in the U.S.I've been asked If us Brits celebrate Christmas and Easter. Which is a bit strange considering a fellow Brit wrote "A Christmas Carol."
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'sophisticated California' not Oakland or Alameda then?
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Somewhere inland from there - maybe Castro Valley area?But still, I had assumed it would be somewhat more world-aware than deep in the "flyover states"... Apparently I was wrong.
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On holiday in MonacoI overheard an American tourist asking "Parlez-vous American?"
"Non." said the woman behind the counter, without hesitation. When it was my turn she turned out to speak very good English though, which was lucky.
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Harley Davidson stores are the great equalizer,there is the same common factor that draws in people that want to own an overpriced, overweight bike that doesn't accelerate and doesn't handle. Is the over-the-hill lawyer stupid because he wants to be an outlaw biker? Probably.
I've met stupider people in California than in Clap City Indiana.
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I was talking to a guy in americaWhile playing Everquest and he actually believed that in the Uk we didn't have elections as we had a queen and she was in charge. It was depressing and funny at the same time.
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