October 20, 2014--Language Barrier

Funny things happen because of miscommunication.

We picked up the phone at 6 am  to order coffee in our room, as there is no kettle and breakfast doesn’t start until 7:30 am.  “Please send 2 pots of coffee, 2 hot waters and 2 hot milks”. 

There was a long delay between the call and the delivery, but finally the chap arrived with… one cup, one saucer and one pot of tea.

At breakfast, I ordered two eggs, over easy-- and I tried to say that with hand gesture -- turning the hand over to give the idea.  Head nod, head nod.

It arrived.  One egg – sunny-side-up.  So I said to the waiter, “Could I please have that turned over?"  At which point he picked up my side plate, set it upsidedown on top of the egg plate and was about to invert the whole thing when I called a halt and said it was fine as is.  He was probably thinking, “Stupid woman. How hard can it be to turn an egg over.”