write a book on some of my customer phone in orders over the years. Especially from down Loosiana way. It was a lot of fun trying to take orders over the phone. At least in person, you have the hand language to help out. And FL was awful. I would sit there listening to their jibberish and then reply in pig latin. Before long someone would come on the line and say in English.... "You mean you don't speak Espanole"... That did it....
Room Service (RS): ?Morny. Ruin sorbees.?
Guest (G): ?Sorry, I thought I dialed room-service.?
RS: ?Rye . . . Ruin sorbees . . morny! Djewish to odor sunteen???
G: ?Uh..yes...I?d like some bacon and eggs?
RS: ?Ow July den??
G: ??What??
RS: ?Ow July den? . . pry, boy, pooch??
G: ?Oh, the eggs! How do I like them? Sorry, scrambled please.?
RS: ?Ow July dee baychem . . .crease??
G: ?Crisp will be fine.?
RS: ?Hokay. An San toes??
G: ?What??
RS: ?San tos. July San toes??
G: ? I don?t think so . .?
RS: ?No? Judo one toes???
G: ?I feel really bad about this, but I don?t know what ?judo one toes? means.?
RS: ?Toes! toes! . . why djew Don Juan toes? Ow bow inglish mopping we bother??
G: ?English muffin!! I?ve got it! You were saying ?toast.? Fine. Yes, an English muffin will be fine.?
RS: ?We bother??
G: ?No . . just put the bother on the side.?
RS: ?Wad??
G: ?I mean butter . . . just put it on the side.?
RS: ?Copy?
G: ?Sorry??
RS: ?Copy...tea...mill??
G: ?Yes, Coffee please, and that?s all.?
RS: One Minnie. *** ruin torino fee, strangle ache, crease baychem, tossy singlish mopping we bother honey sign, and copy . . . rye???
G: ?Whatever you say.?
RS: ?Tendjewberrymud!?
G: ?You?re welcome.?
If you've been fortunate, (unfortunate ?), enough to have done much business travel, I'm certain you have encountered this in more than one region of the world. You realize quickly that face to face in the restaurant is much less challenging than room service.
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