"Ich möchte eine Pretzel," I announce, grinning at the German guy behind the counter. "Is that right?"
"Right, left!" he cries with gusto, "the pretzel's on the left, why do you say right? You want a pretzel when you don't even know which it is!"
I stutter and stammer in broken German. That's not what I meant, I try to get out, but I inconveniently forget how to conjugate.
The German man takes delight in my discomfort. "Sehr schön!" he roars. "Ein Dollar fünfzig Cent."
"Um, um, ah, danke," I say, slinking away.
"Danke schön! Tschüss!" he screams in ever-increasing decibels. The German tourists laugh.
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Hey man come check out my blog.
There is a recap of some of my lecture on conversation strategy :D
I'll probably get lazy and stop writing within a month though.
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