I missed my bus back home so killed time in a cafe, I wanted a pot of tea but i always got mixed up with the german word kaennchen and haehnchen, apart from the k and h sound exactly the same, the first meaning pot the second a chicken. I asked for chicken tea in a faultless accent, i thought they were deaf when they kept asking me to repeat it, so i finally shouted it thinking it's the german way. They said nothing and brought me normal tea and stood in a corner and watched. i thought everything was ok. When I got home, i proudly told my husband i was able to order something all by myself...he nearly died laughing, but added the pronounciation was perfect which prob threw them completely.
2006-11-28
07:50:58
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