It’s All Dutch To Me
Customer: “Hey, can I buy these, please?”
Me: “Sure. That’ll be 10 euros.”
(The customer hands me 10 Canadian dollars.)
Me: “I’m sorry, I can’t take that currency.”
Customer: “What? Why?”
Me: “Because this isn’t Canada.”
Customer: “But I thought you guys use Canadian dollars? My friend said they use Canadian dollars outside the US.”
Me: “We don’t. We use Euros here.”
Customer: “Since when?”
Me: “Since 2002. Although before that, we used guilders, so your dollars would still be useless.”
Customer: “But they’re Canadian dollars!”
Me: “But this isn’t Canada.”
(At this point, I take a second look at the magazines he’s trying to buy.)
Me: ” Excuse me, but do you speak Dutch?”
Customer: “No.”
Me: “Then why are you buying Dutch magazines?”
Customer: “I thought they’d be in English.”
Me: “Because they speak English in Canada?”
Customer: *blushing* “Yeah.”
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