OT: A joke for Fred, Gillian, Joan et al

A Russian woman married a Canadian gentleman and they lived happily ever after in Toronto. However, the poor lady was not very proficient in English, but did manage to communicate with her husband. The real problem arose whenever she had to shop for groceries.

One day, she went to the butcher and wanted to buy chicken legs. She didn't know how to put forward her request, and in desperation, clucked like a chicken and lifted up her skirt to show her thighs. Her butcher got the message, and gave her the chicken legs. Next day she needed to get chicken breasts, again she didn't know how to say it, and so she clucked like a chicken and unbuttoned her blouse to show the butcher her breasts! The butcher understood again, and gave her some chicken breasts. On the 3rd day, the poor lady needed to buy sausages. Unable to find a way to communicate this, she brought her husband to the store... (Please scroll down)

What were you thinking? Hellooooooo, her husband speaks English! Now get back to your stitching. I don't know about you sometimes!

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Reply to
lucretia borgia
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I was thinking she could do what I used to do when dealing with Mexican shops ... I'd have Lalo write down what I wanted, and hand it to the clerk.

Reply to
Karen C in California

I used to do that for my mother in Cantonese - "Ask the man how much it is for 2lbs" - mother to seven year old, worked for her and at the time I didn't particularly see the incongruity of it, neither did they.

Reply to
lucretia borgia

My granny's fastest way of getting rid of door-to-door salesmen was to call me over to translate. No one wants to sell a vacuum cleaner to a pre-schooler.

It was years later that I discovered she spoke near-perfect English. :)

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Karen C in California

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