Would you understand this?

[Bouncy Ball]

You go to a drive-thru to get dinner and here's how the conversation goes.

You: I'd like a bean burrito and a small iced tea.

Person: Youwan memon?

You: What?

Person: YOUWAN MEMON?

You: I'm sorry I totally didn't understand that.

Person: I joe bee joe.

You: WHAT?

Person: Burrito?

You:

Person: OK?

You: DO? YOU? HAVE? MY? ORDER?

Person: Five twenny four pull around!

You: What did I order?

Person: WHAT? PLEASE PULL AROUND.

You pull around. Person looks at you and says "Youwan memon?" AGAIN.

You explain you have no idea what they are saying. "YOUR TEA! YOUWAN MEMON?"

OH LEMON!!!!

I still don't know what "I joe bee joe" means but I think it had something to do with the burrito.

[Kali]

1. is it me or are the posts tonight extra funny?

[MsKandice01]

2. I just made a post to that effect...

I'm dying over here....

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[Bouncy Ball]

4. I know I'm kind of punchy and giddy.

Last night my husband and I even got into a big "I touched you last" battle. Like siblings do. We were laughing our asses off and trying to touch each other, then run.

[Bouncy Ball]

3. Just for the record, this person was not a foreigner.

I am not making fun of an accent or anything. She just had an interesting way of pronouncing....well, just about everything.

[Kutjara]

5. Bless you. I thought it was just me.

I came back to the US last year after years living in the UK, and I thought it was my accent that made it impossible for me to get anything even remotely like what I ordered from a drive-thru window. Good to know that even the 'natives' suffer the same humiliation.

[Bouncy Ball]

6. This person had the worst enunciation I think I've

ever heard in my life. Someone put her on drive-thru duty as a joke, seriously. They were probably in a back room, giggling. Poor thing. But it'll forever and always be "memon" to me now.

[Kutjara]

8. It's even better when the speaker thingy is broken...

so that every exchange is accompanied by a shower of static. My two favorite recent orders were the following:

Del Taco - My order: Two beef tacos and a Diet Coke. What I got: Two fish tacos, a chicken burrito and a Sprite.
Carl's Jr. - My order: A 'Six-Dollar Burger,' fries and a Coke. What I got: Six hamburgers, chicken strips and a coffee.

Now, I just order fairly randomly and then wait in eager anticipation to see what I'm going to get. The upside is I've tried some stuff I never would have considered before. The downside is that most of it is vile.

[Bouncy Ball]

9. There's a taco place I go to (Taco Cabana) and I SWEAR

to you, if you say "yes" to the question "Do you want salsa?" you will get none.

If you say no, you will get like six covered little cups of the stuff.

It works EVERY time.

It's like they're in there going "SHE SAY NO TO THE SALSA! THASS IT! SHE GETS THE SALSA!"

Or "She wan the salsa a leetle too much. I think she don't have any salsa."

[Kutjara]

11. I guess their jobs must be so boring yet...

...stressful that they do stuff like that just to relive the tedium. I think I'd be a basket case within three hours of putting on the little headset. I don't envy them one bit, so I can't bring myself to get irritated with botched orders. I just thank them in my polite English way, and drive off to enjoy my mystery meal.

[Bouncy Ball]

12. Oh I would do the same thing with the salsa.

I'd be so passive-aggressive it'd be crazy, LOL! The salsa thing CRACKS me up. I never use it, so I don't care. But I'm always testing to see if the Theory of Opposite Salsa works and it's never failed yet.

It must be fun to have that mystery with your dinners!

[Kutjara]

14. I'll see if your salsa theory works elsewhere.

I tend to just say yes in response whatever babble is fired at me, but I think I'll start throwing in random 'no's now, just to see what happens. If I start getting extra stuff, I'll know we're onto something.

[Kali]

10. stop...I can't breathe...

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Lethe]

17. beware of Carl's Jr......if you combine it with Reddog beer

just....watch out....ok?

[Bouncy Ball]

7. By the way, when I watch the British version of

"The Office," I turn on the subtitles.

[Shakespeare]

13. You and my sister should compare drive-thru mishap notes.

She gets that pretty much wherever she goes. Every time. Bless her heart.

[Zomby Woof]

15. THEY'LL FUCK YOU AT THE DRIVE-THRU!!!

[Bouncy Ball]

16. Well, believe me, no one fucked me.

I would have remembered that even more than the memon!