Re: CHAT: A pretty bad language joke :]

On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Barry Garcia wrote:

> CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
> >In Paris certainly. The rest of France is much better, except the South
> >which is
> >also very bad. Strangely enough, it seems that it is in the most touristic
> >places of France that people are the most rude, as if they were fed up
> >with
> >having to deal with tourists. The fact that if tourists stopped spending
> >their
> >money in France they would lose their jobs doesn't seem to worry them...
>
> Funny, if the restaurants, stores, information centers were like that here
> in Monterey, they'd lose business and close, or be firing people all the
> time. Such a bad attitude, to bite the hand that feeds you, so to speak.
>
Similar like in Hungary and Yugoslavia, where often the sales girl is more
interested in filing her nails, and will usually file her nails making you
wait for five minutes before looking up and saying something akin to "why
the hell did you interrupt me?"

-------ferko
Ferenc Gy. Valoczy

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