23 October 2007
8 Gate Shopping Mall
So I go alone to the KFC. I look at the choices, and the cashier gets the picture menu that they bring out for illiterates, and I point to it with two fingers and very haltingly say, "Wo You Er..."
The kid behind the counter looks at me like I'm an idiot and says, "Yeah, you want two... I get it", in a perfect 'lost youth', American accent.
3 comments:
This story made me feel like you felt old AND silly all in once. I am sitting here ROFLMAO on that story. How was the KFC - did it taste the same as here? Did you go to the Cold Stream or Starbucks at all?
I'd be interested in knowing the age where above they expect you to try to speak their language and below they just automatically know English. Interesting though that he expected you would know that he knows English. -Matt Johnson
Matt, I don't know that there is an age. Many people can read and write English, but not speak it at all (or are too bad that they won't try).
Frankly, I'm pretty convinced that the guy set me up as an easy mark.
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