Best Not Order The French Fries
(I come in on my day off to get my paycheck. Before I go, my boss asks me to help with a table of two people who are speaking mostly French. When I am done, another customer calls me over.)
Customer: “Excuse me, don’t you work here?”
Me: “Yes, sir, I do. It’s just my day off today. Would you like me to get your server?”
Customer: “What were you just talking in? It was some kind of foreign talk. At that other table there?”
Me: “Oh, I speak a little bit of French, so I was helping the server.”
Customer: “You can do that?”
Me: “Do what, sir?”
Customer: “You can speak French in here? Isn’t that illegal?!”
Me: “To speak French?”
Customer: “Yeah! I mean, this is a Mexican restaurant. You could get shot for speaking in French! Or even just thinking about talking in French!”
Me: “Well–”
Customer: “Shot!”
Me: “I don’t think–”
Customer: “Shot!”
Me: “Sir–”
Customer: “SHOT, I SAID!”
Boss: “It’s okay. She was thinking about the words in Spanish.”
Customer: “Oh, good.” *whispers to me* “Don’t ever try to talk in British in here. It won’t end well.”
(My boss made a gun out of paper clips and attached them to all of my paychecks after that.)
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