Oh, God. Are you a Yank?
Q and I went shopping for office provisions on Friday morning. We keep a stock of Appletizer (yum, fizzy apple juice. Wish we had this in Seattle), Coca-Cola, Coffee, etc. We were standing in the checkout line when a 60-ish woman just behind me says "You are buying all that poison? Are you mad? You know, people in India are protesting to keep this stuff out?" I said something to the effect of "oh, I'm not drinking it all. this is for the office." She caught my accent and a with a look of bewilderment, and perhaps a bit of revulsion exclaimed "Oh, God. Are you a Yank?" I nearly fell over laughing. Yes, Yes I am a Yank. No apologies offered.
Posted by cbrown at July 23, 2005 9:21 PM