WATER
 

How ****ing stupid do you have to be not to understand when someone with a different accent says the word water. The single celled amoeba taking orders at the drive thru McDonals was completely stumped when I tried to get a water with my daughters happy meal. I ended up basically screaming at the speaker and demanding someone takes over that actually understands English!!!! And he still effed up my order!!! I ended up telling him to cancel the order in not the most politest way. What is the matter with these people though? Water!!! W A T E R!!!!!!!!! I'm raging!!!

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I used to have this problem all the time until I started substituting d for t, ie wader

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Water, wader, there isn't a massive difference. These people are flipping idiots. Now I have pissed off kids cause I promised them a happy meal. I'm glad I don't own a gun!!!!!!

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A bit upset over a fairly small problem. No reason to call someone doing a job single celled or even become upset over it.

Accents can be hard for some people to understand. I fully admit I have trouble with some British accents, some may as well be speaking a foreign language they are so difficult to understand. Doesn't make them idiots, stupid, or whatever else people feel the need to call them.

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Yes it does!

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I've had the exact same thing happen. It does make me angry.

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I know it doesn't sound much different, but it obviously does to the servers that I have dealt with. The alternative is to try to imitate an american accent. The hard 't' is not used where I live.
As a kid , adults used to always complain about not pronouncing 't' properly, if only they had left me alone.

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Most of the time I just make my wife say the order from the passenger seat. I hate doing drive-thru orders.

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Me too, but I'm getting better at it.

Saying "warder" is just the cost of doing business.

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Was it a native speaker?
I have issue at fast food places when it is my accent and their learners English. Those two dont go well together.

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Just say "iced water" and they (may) get the context.

Fast food is not good for you, just sayin' :scarper:

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The US is a country of immigrants, not all will speak English as their first language, throw in an accent they don't hear often, and its good probability a mistake will happen.

Again doesn't make them stupid, or single celled, which is what hit a nerve.

If you moved to a country that didn't speak your language and you were learning, would you want to be called single celled or stupid because of it?

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Always ask for light ice too or you get a bucket of ice and a thimble-full of pop.

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I can't do it... gave up long ago. now I just order Coke.

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And then get Pepsi.

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Isn't starbucks being sued over that right now? Their ice coffee being mostly ice and no coffee.