Thursday, June 07, 2007

Dear Old Condescending British Ladies...

I didn't know whether to laugh or cry as the eldery, brown toothed, Brit asked me for black coffee.

"Black Coffee: that means 'without cream or sugar' dearie."

Reminded me of an old Scottish lady I met once. I told her my name was Jesse.

"Oh, that's what we name the girls in our country."

As my Scottish father-in-law pointed out, I should have retorted "Yes, but they name the gents Beverly there as well." (True)

3 comments:

Munkee said...

never forget Evelyn.

Anonymous said...

i prefer to call men "Nancy"

of course if i call a man "Nancy" it is not usually meant as a positive.

Anonymous said...

You got to let her off, the UK is back in the dark ages of coffee here there is a need to make it very obvious. I'm just impressed she wanted black coffee :)