It really just happened to me
May 1st 2011, 7:05 pm
#91
Lost in BE Cyberspace
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Re: It really just happened to me
Two years ago I stayed at a Holiday Inn near Shrewsbury, and at dinner ask for some water. "Fizzy or Still" Neither, just plain water. "We only have Fizzy or Still, which do you want?" Neither, just plain water. "We don't have any."
I asked which of the two offered they used for 'washing up' in the kitchen. "You being funny?" I explained that all I want was a glass of water before my meal, and that if they took the glass I offered off the table, and held it under that chrome thing with the twisty bit on the top and rotated the top to the left, it would fill the glass with, guess what? WATER. He went away with the glass and a few minutes later the Head Waiter came back and asked if I had been drinking. I said not yet as I'm waiting for the other guy to come back with my glass of water. It went down hill from there...
I asked which of the two offered they used for 'washing up' in the kitchen. "You being funny?" I explained that all I want was a glass of water before my meal, and that if they took the glass I offered off the table, and held it under that chrome thing with the twisty bit on the top and rotated the top to the left, it would fill the glass with, guess what? WATER. He went away with the glass and a few minutes later the Head Waiter came back and asked if I had been drinking. I said not yet as I'm waiting for the other guy to come back with my glass of water. It went down hill from there...
May 1st 2011, 7:10 pm
#92
MCROW
Joined: Apr 2011
Location: Rural Georgia
Posts: 978
Re: It really just happened to me
A few years ago after repeatedly spelling my relatively long name to a client on the phone, I finally politely advised her to address correspondence to me using my short first name. " First name is fine", I told her.
From that time on all my correspondance from her started off with, "Dear Mr. Fine."
From that time on all my correspondance from her started off with, "Dear Mr. Fine."
Again she had another variation. On the fourth attempt, I ask; You're in the Navy, right? She said she was a Lewtenant. I said "Great, my name is David, Sierra Hotel Echo November Tango blah blah and then said my family name" There was a pause and she said "You got all them names???"
I said, just put what ever you want and the address.
It came addressed to Delta Shaganton
May 1st 2011, 7:15 pm
#93
MCROW
Joined: Apr 2011
Location: Rural Georgia
Posts: 978
Re: It really just happened to me
Tried that, to be told they couldn't sell it to me, to which I said "Well give it to me, or should I go to my room and bring a glass of it down from there?"
When they eventually brought me a glass of water, two tables clapped. I was about to drink some when the man closest to me said; "Maybe the all spat in it." His mate said, "perhaps they pissed in it." I went to my room and brought down a glass from there.
When they eventually brought me a glass of water, two tables clapped. I was about to drink some when the man closest to me said; "Maybe the all spat in it." His mate said, "perhaps they pissed in it." I went to my room and brought down a glass from there.
May 1st 2011, 7:20 pm
#94
Lost in BE Cyberspace
Joined: Jan 2008
Posts: 41,518
Re: It really just happened to me
Tried that, to be told they couldn't sell it to me, to which I said "Well give it to me, or should I go to my room and bring a glass of it down from there?"
When they eventually brought me a glass of water, two tables clapped. I was about to drink some when the man closest to me said; "Maybe the all spat in it." His mate said, "perhaps they pissed in it." I went to my room and brought down a glass from there.
When they eventually brought me a glass of water, two tables clapped. I was about to drink some when the man closest to me said; "Maybe the all spat in it." His mate said, "perhaps they pissed in it." I went to my room and brought down a glass from there.
