Month: April 2011
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Lessons from waitressing – sounding like you understand stuff (when you don’t) doesn’t get you a tip.
We had lunch in our local café last weekend. The waitress had a brilliant, excellent English accent. Her education had clearly been very thorough in that respect. However her vocabulary was extremely limited. A table nearby asked for the bill – she didn’t understand. Then they tried asking for the cheque. She didn’t understand that…