OK so we have all had the are you from Austraila question but this one took the biscuit (cookie for you yanks)...

So I am helping this customer at work and when I am almost done she asks 'are you Scandinavian?' I look at her with a confused look and told her 'no, I am English'... she replies very rudely and with a very matter of fact attitude and says 'WELL you don't sound like any english person I have ever heard'. She basically accused me of lying

But not to worry I spoke to my mum the next day and she assures me I was born in England and did spend the first 24 years of my life there it really wasn't all a dream.

It is now the running joke at work about me being Scandinavian.

Ash

To which yoy could have replied equally puzzled "No, I don't do I? Funny, wonder how that happened?"

Aside, I love playing the silly 'talk loudly in public and make people stare' game. Took me a minute to realise why it wasn't working on a recent trip to Blackpool though!

Don't worry I've been asked was I German when I said no I was asked what language I was speaking

So far Australian and Irish, I told one person I was from England and he proceed to name places I'd never heard of, then I realised he was talking about New England.

Didn't think I'd need my Spanish over here but a couple of times its come in quite handy when I've stopped at a shop. They looked at me blank when I spoke in English, soon change when asked in Spanish.

You should've replied
"Thats because all the English people you have heard are really Scandinavians and too polite to tell you what a f**king ignorant **** you are"!!!!!!


Then thought about a change in career as you have about 2 minutes of employment left.

I guess she never watched Byker Grove as a kid then.

Hang on a minute!!! Is Ash a geordie?

I have been asked if I am german too and swiss and austrian... however in the 3 years that I have lived here it is the first time I have been accused of lying about my accent.
The ignorance of some people never ceases to amaze me.

Ash

Not quite although I guess I have/had a bit of a geordie twang... i lived in durham in the UK.

Ash

I've had Scandinavain quite a lot too!
I had the delivery guy at work swear he thought I was Swedish. A bum asked me if I was Norweigan, then had an Australian ask me whereabouts in Australia I was from!
Also once when I was in Newark Airport I said "tuna sandwich" in the english way ie, "choona" and had a complete fricking stranger who was walking past, tell me I needed to take English Lessons! If I wasn't with my boss I would've been tempted to kick him in the nads.

[QUOTE=britontour]So far Australian and Irish, I told one person I was from England and he proceed to name places I'd never heard of, then I realised he was talking about New England.

That's okay-I AM New England born and bred, and I have had people ask me, when I mention that my husband is English, if I am English too !!!???!!!

You should simply have said, NO and asked her - "Where is that" ?

That woulda stumped her...

Just yesterday I was TOLD, "I can tell your from Australia".... Grrrrrr... hee hee

Just tell them your from Tanganiyka... I found it kills the conversation stone dead ...

I was at the docs the other day with my daughter who was wearing a union jack t shirt and had a union jack patch on her jeans. After a while chatting about ailments and so forth the doctor said, "now, let me guess...where are you guys from.....er...let me see...South Africa?"

Works for you Ray but it was Tanzania when most of us were born