Coop

Example of previous blog item. So perhaps you've heard it before.

Was in Coop some years ago. Fairly new to the country, and the language. Was shopping for meat over the counter. Had a really small vocabulary, so pointed to some pork fillet, saying "eine" (one). Got a really long response in Switschedütsch (Swiss German), to which I smiled and said absolutely nothing. The woman finally got that I didn't understand and said (in Swiss German obviously...which I incidentally understood): "perhaps you have a problem with the Swiss accent?". To which I nodded politely. And wanted to scream "NOOOO, I have a friggin problem with the language!!!".