Just returned from the butcher and can't stop laughing, not
without a certain blush. This shop is manned by an old couple
and they take turns at the storefront and the back, cutting the
meat and stuff. When I got in the lady greeted me while her
husband was at the back, and she told me about the fresh chicken
breasts they had to offer. I perused and tried to make up my mind,
while she did other stuff and went to the back, after which her
husband came to man the storefront, greeted me, and asked me
if I knew their today's special. And that's when I told him "I've
seen her breasts already, yes"
We both paused, staring at each other, for a nanosecond, after
which a goodhearted laughter erupted. She returned to the front
and asked what was going on, but we brushed it off and went
to business, keeping the comic faux pas to ourselves.
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In France vitamin C is often sold with preservatives in it (I can't image in why, just one of those cultural things). A person known to me once tried to buy a packet of vitamin C in France without preservatives in it and asked the druggist in halting, imperfect French whether the packet contained 'preservatif', which she imagined must be the French word for what it sounds like in English. Well, it isn't.
Originally posted by moonbusSo.
In France vitamin C is often sold with preservatives in it (I can't image in why, just one of those cultural things). A person known to me once tried to buy a packet of vitamin C in France without preservatives in it and asked the druggist in halting, imperfect French whether the packet contained 'preservatif', which she imagined must be the French word for what it sounds like in English. Well, it isn't.
Originally posted by SeitseWell?
Just returned from the butcher and can't stop laughing, not
without a certain blush. This shop is manned by an old couple
and they take turns at the storefront and the back, cutting the
meat and stuff. When I got in the lady greeted me while her
husband was at the back, and she told me about the fresh chicken
breasts they had to offer. I perused and tri ...[text shortened]... mic faux pas to ourselves.
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