The 'language' of mini-stores and small shops
By heero_yuy2 •
Ever had a time when you went on any small corner store nearby your place and asked for the availability of an item but the answer was not even halfway related to the item you mentioned?
For example: I asked "Do you have a gravy mix powder?" and the store assistant or cashier replied with "Tuna?"
Stone Cold said
Up is you are welcome, and down is get the hell out of here.
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When you say "come, come".. you wobble your head down...
when you shout "get the hell out of here" you wobble your head up
try it, just to clarify...lol
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jack, hahahaha :-))))))) You've made my evening :-))
Guys, are you seriously??!! It's a LANGUAGE! A foreign language. Plus all dialects etc.!
:-)
Anybody shown you the little finger?
Well...thats when they want to go to the Toilet....for a Piss
Ring Finger....that they are married....
Middle Finger....when they have an "Opinion" about you :)
Little finger+the forefinger when they have "double the Opinion"
Middle Finger + Forefinger ....Victory/Peace
If he/she puts his/her tongue between the Middle Finger + Forefinger....it would be pretty obvious what it means :)
Fore finger.....used in an argument or for showing the way
Thumbs-up.....successful
One time I go inside one BAKALA and ask for Coca Cola Red and he give me Nescafe sachet.
LOL
who is a barrista back home. So I'm sittin there in the cafe when this Turkish dude comes in asking in Turkish (which no one frickin understands anyways, but oh well the man's gotta communicate) if he offers anything to eat, he does actually say the word "kebab", but being used to a daily slew of tourists coming in and asking for the toilet my buddy just hands him the keys to the kingdom and says "SECOND DOOR LEFT" (which is also the extent of his English vocabulary). I ROFL'd pretty hard. "You just sent the man to lunch in the s*****r!"... He's like, "no I didn't, y'all are trying to make me look stupid again". Sure enough bloke returns from second door left quite unhappy :D
That wasn't half as bad as when he had these three African Americans come in for coffee...utter disaster!
lol stone cold... i never noticed that... i will then focus more on their wobbling from now on :))
"there are so many rumors about me...feel free to believe in any of'em.."
Too bad flan. Wobble to the left means No, and to the right means yes. Up is you are welcome, and down is get the hell out of here.
..and they call it "supermarkets" not mini-stores and small shops.
Heero: u shud hv told dem in english
at least they talk to you, i just get a head wobble.
You are still lucky heero, they did not show you the graveyard here in doha...lolz!
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You have to learn to speak Mallu :O)
Exactly so. Thats a typical things to expect in this multi lingual society. At time its wise to back it up using a sign language
Not in a small shop but once went to a musical instrument shop in Dubai, Asked for a Mandolin, the clerk gave me directions to Mandaloun Restaurant.
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