Today, a customer asked me if I was English, because I was struggling to understand what he was saying. I said yes. He then called me a liar, and said I must be "one of them Polish immigrants." Oh, and he also had a thick Scottish accent. FML
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Today, I went through a fast-food drive-thru and gave my order in a perfect British accent for fun. When I got to the window, the cashier handed me my food and said, "I love your accent!" Caught off guard, I replied, "Oh, thanks a lot!" in my normal New Jersey accent. The confusion on her face was priceless. FML
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Gubbon 17
"to understand what he saying" I think he wasn't wrong after all...
mssileas 25
Customers' opinions are in general without any value whatsoever. And if their first guess is that you must be a foreigner because you can't understand a dialect from the get-go, even more so. Move on, I'm pretty sure you know better than him.
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Comments (4)
mssileas 25
Customers' opinions are in general without any value whatsoever. And if their first guess is that you must be a foreigner because you can't understand a dialect from the get-go, even more so. Move on, I'm pretty sure you know better than him.
Henry8cooper 15
The customer is always right. So which part of Poland did you come from? 😂
Gubbon 17
"to understand what he saying" I think he wasn't wrong after all...
BurnInDemonFire 39
Should have called him Shrek. He wouldn't hit a woman.