TexasJo wrote: Molly wrote: I remember when i went to a drive through at McDonald i was trying to order a coke but they didn't understand and me i got so cross and angry having to repeat myself 100 times that i went in and yelled out at the top of my lungs "I want a bloody coke what don't you understand" my husband come running in after me and picked me up and run off I still didn't get my coke.
OMG I STILL have that problem, I even tried saying cocoa cola but still got the " you want what"...with living in Texas we have ALOT of TexMex people here that have a hard enough time trying to understand the American's let alone us Aussies, and 90% of the restaurant staff here are TexMex, so now I just ask for Sweet Tea, problem solved
But one of the worst and most embarassing situations I have been in, was in Subway of all places!!! The chick behind the counter couldn't understand one word I was saying, and with a huge line of people behind me getting aggravated and me getting more and more embarassed, I ended up with the worst sandwich I have ever had with hardly anything on it, just so I could get out of there!!!! 
Oh I dont let them get away with that! I stand there saying it s l o w l y or spell what I want and say 'd o y o u u n d e r s t a n d n o w.' in a slow, loud and very pissed off voice. I mean, c'mon folks, we speak ENGLISH and they've all seen Crocodile Dundee or Steve Irwin enough times to work it out.
BTW my biggest problem with getting my message accross and in fact in understanding what the hell they are saying, are the coloured folk from the South. Is it me, or do they seem to mumble and join everything together in one word?
Last edited on Thu Jun 24th, 2010 01:53 pm by Dingo in PA
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The filthiest word in the English language - assimilation. I utterly refuse to have anything to do with it!
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