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A ‘no question’ competition in a bar in Fort Worth: “I’ll have a whiskey please, Scotch, single malt, Macallans, no ice, no water.” The smug look resulting from the assumption that this was totally unambiguous was met with: “Would that be 12 or 18 year old, sir?”. It really is not possible for a Brit to win!
In a diner in Portsmouth, NH, with an Australian mate, having flown with him from Sydney and arrived in BOS the night before...
Waitress: "Where you from?"
Us: "We've come from Australia."
W: "They've had some real nasty avalanches over there, ain't they?"
U: "Well, that's Austria"...
And I also presented a world map once to the head of the HQ support centre, so the team could work out where Austria was in relation to Australia and allocate support tickets to.
Waitress: "Where you from?"
Us: "We've come from Australia."
W: "They've had some real nasty avalanches over there, ain't they?"
U: "Well, that's Austria"...
And I also presented a world map once to the head of the HQ support centre, so the team could work out where Austria was in relation to Australia and allocate support tickets to.
Anyhow apart from AAc exchange are there any RAF QHI on exchange duty at Mother Rucker?
cheers
With regard to ordering food in restaurants in the USA, we had crew competitions to see who could complete the order and avoid any of the long list of supplementary questions ( eg what sort of dressing would you like on that?)
There were times when even "I'll have what he's having" didn't work
There were times when even "I'll have what he's having" didn't work
In a diner in Portsmouth, NH, with an Australian mate, having flown with him from Sydney and arrived in BOS the night before...
Waitress: "Where you from?"
Us: "We've come from Australia."
W: "They've had some real nasty avalanches over there, ain't they?"
U: "Well, that's Austria"...
And I also presented a world map once to the head of the HQ support centre, so the team could work out where Austria was in relation to Australia and allocate support tickets to.
Waitress: "Where you from?"
Us: "We've come from Australia."
W: "They've had some real nasty avalanches over there, ain't they?"
U: "Well, that's Austria"...
And I also presented a world map once to the head of the HQ support centre, so the team could work out where Austria was in relation to Australia and allocate support tickets to.
No mystery why Americans always say the name of the country after the city
Heading to Paris, France, just to be sure
In Gulf war 1 & 2 many thought those conflicts took place in the Gulf of Mexico
Soon after retirement was on holiday at a Sheraton on Fort Walton Beach, Florida gulf coast. Friday night Happy Hour with a difference - free food if buying a drink. As we were keen to save dollars, wife and I fill our boots from 1700 to 1880 when TV behind the bar shows President Reagan thanking the UK for supporting his F111s based in UK to go attack Libya. Wife and I wonder if this news may affect return home and I go to the bar and order a couple more drinks. Gent on bar stool asks the usual 'Gee are you English'; happy not to be thought Aussie, answer yes. Gent turns out to be a retired US Marine and insists (really insists) on taking us out elsewhere for a dinner. Overwhelmed by his generosity, we tried hard to hide our already full stomachs, and appeared to succeed. It was only during the meal that he discovered my Service past, and this generated more drinks. I have never experienced such open generosity, let alone for strangers, before or since. To my mind an example of the very best of American traits and based on a shared history (might call it a special relationship at a citizen level).
On a night stop in Bangor, Maine, all of my crew went to the Mall and popped into the bar for lunch. At the time I was 50 and definitely not young looking, yet I was still asked to prove I was over 21 to have a drink. Later that same day when visiting the transport museum near the Holiday Inn I was asked if I needed a Senior Citizen ticket. You have to laugh at the way they are expected to stick to the rules, rather than use their brains!
Below the Glidepath - not correcting
On a night stop in Bangor, Maine, all of my crew went to the Mall and popped into the bar for lunch. At the time I was 50 and definitely not young looking, yet I was still asked to prove I was over 21 to have a drink. Later that same day when visiting the transport museum near the Holiday Inn I was asked if I needed a Senior Citizen ticket. You have to laugh at the way they are expected to stick to the rules, rather than use their brains!
Huge, we've all had the same thought process with the being carded routine, but actually it's the same reason that so many other things are completely insane - lawyers and lawsuits. If you rely on judgement and observation, it only takes one underage drinker to slip through and you are done in terms of liability etc. So to ensure you can't be sued, the safe way is to card 100% of people. Quite a lot of places let staff use judgement, like saying they will card anybody who appears to be 35 or under, but again, that is a judgement call, so isn't foolproof. It would be nice to think you are being asked because of your debonair and youthful looks, but it's actually so you wont end up in a lawsuit.
What got me, was having to have every one at the bar when ordering a round of drinks to prove who they were for (that was Hawaii)
I remember a trip to Mather AFB on Red Flag support to the Tankers.
We were accomodated in downtown Sacramento. The first bar we tried they wanted ID just to enter. Unfortunately they refused to accept the RAF F1250 Service ID as valid ID. Needless to say we took our custom elsewhere.
We were accomodated in downtown Sacramento. The first bar we tried they wanted ID just to enter. Unfortunately they refused to accept the RAF F1250 Service ID as valid ID. Needless to say we took our custom elsewhere.
With regard to ordering food in restaurants in the USA, we had crew competitions to see who could complete the order and avoid any of the long list of supplementary questions ( eg what sort of dressing would you like on that?)
There were times when even "I'll have what he's having" didn't work
There were times when even "I'll have what he's having" didn't work
It was only when we were leaving that she realised we'd been doing it all deliberately! She did get a big tip though.
