mrbooks’s Comments (group member since Mar 19, 2014)

mrbooks’s comments from the Net Work Book Club group.

been there done that it's a bit of a flip flop in my book

Well it looks like Trump has been trumped

crazy is as crazy does

At work I call them cus-um-mores.

Let me correct that statement, because I work on a military base in the base exchange the majority of the customers feel it is there right to be as rude as possible as we are there to serve them. They fail to realize that the majority of the employees there are retired military members or dependent spouses and children. As a customer when I was active duty I was always polite to the associates, that's what we are called now. In the last 5-10 years the attitude has drastically changed they no longer ask questions the demand, order and insist things being there way. As we are overseas we don't always have everything instantly available. When we tell them the ship is in port but the weather is to rough to down load the containers they demand we get them what they want. I actually told a customer "What you want me to go in back and s@#$ one out for you? (pardon the language, I told him if want to act like a real prick I will treat you like one. Yes I got in trouble but it was worth it for that customer never came in again acting like he was king of the world. That is also why I stay in the warehouse and avoid the sales floor .

Manners ? Are you kidding in retail you never and I mean never run across a customer with manners, I think it is against the customers first person rights or against there religion you choice of which one you pick LOL

People who jump off the Nile bridge are in de nile

And the giant priest said unto the midget nun my faith is greater then yours

Yup I hear that meaning I hear it all the time. One good thing is my brain goes into automatic translation mode so I don't have to think about it.

A dwarf and a midget are completely different.

A dwarf admits his size and is proud of it
A midget denies his size and says he is a little person

Concur with that statement.

My pet peeve is mate. I know this is an English statement for friend, but really am I married to you are we sleeping together ? No then don't call me mate...

Yup sounds about right I new the min I saw Vicky Naylor what was coming LOL. I grew up learning American English imagine the shock I got arriving in England and not understanding half of what was being said.

Example Would you like to be knocked up in the morning

No but I can knock you up tonight if you like. Confusion on both parts more on mine as I was 20 and she was 60, never go to a bed and breakfast and say something stupid like that. It's called open mouth insert foot.

Wow from Yorkshire accent to Chinese translation into English you do have your hands full. I have been married for 35 years and still come across a statement my wife will make that throws me. I work with foreign nationals that don't speak clear English and I have become some what of an expert in figuring out what they mean even if it doesn't even come close to what they say. I can see you have had the same kind of experiences.

What do you get when you cross a dwarf with an apple tree

A dwarf tree

I don't nome, it's not so s elf evident that they can ut if we are not careful this may dwarf up all.

I don't know there are a bit light on there Elf and Safety it doesn't seem they are all the elf motivated

Did you hear about the giant who wanted to be a dwarf? He didn't fit in.

And we living go to visit our children there

How far in the deep south of the UK are we talking Devon or Summerset ? In east Anglia the have what we call the Suffolk mumble or the Norfolk slur. If you have ever listened to them talk you would be amazed any of them ever started let alone finished school.

That was a grave mistake