Sunday, February 17

Lost in Translation

This morning I order coffee on my way home from church. The lady hands me the cup of black coffee and a bunch of creamer. "Thanks," I tell her, as I walk away. Then I realize I didn't get any sugar. And what good is coffee and creamer without sugar? So I come back and ask for sugar. She looks at me blankly, almost impatiently. "I need sugar." Still nothing. "Sugar. Can I please have sugar?"
The light bulb goes off... "Ah, shOO-gAr! shOO-gAr!"
"Yes, shOO-gAr, please. Thank you."
Apparently I wasn't pronouncing it correctly the first four times. Gotta love it.

6 comments:

Sketchism said...

Sweet ending.

Brandon & Paula said...

jaja that reminds me of one time i went to dunkin donuts and the dude was trying to tell me if i wanted cream and sugar but, the more he repeated it, the more it sounded like "creemanchuga" and to me and some friends i was with, all we heard was.. do u want "lechuga" as in... lettuce? never to be forgotten.
creemanchuga!
:)

hows the moving coming along? we missed u last night!!!!

Kiki said...

What? No Esplenda???

Merari said...

Apparently you don't know how to speak English.

:0)

Janell said...

lol dont wory anne ill help you with your language issues! lol i love you!

mandy said...

:)
cute. Our seminary has students from all over the world... I never thought I'd learn how to quickly understand what a broken Korean accent was trying to say in English.
Never. But now I can. wow...