Eager to fit in!!!

So I have been on what sophisticated people call a hiatus for while. I thought I would never come back to write again when on Tuesday I experienced something destined to be on someones blog somewhere.

If you have been anywhere overseas or even in heavily populated ethnic areas you have heard the jabber of native tongue being spit back and forth and always wondered what the hell they were saying! I used to speak enough Spanish where I could get the gist of what was going on, or at least be smart enough to figure out if they were making fun of me.

This idea brings me to Tuesday when Chris, Danny, and myself were out in Shinnecock on the boat at a nice seaside eatery having lunch. I overheard two elder ladies having a conversation in their hometown slang of German. Call me nosey or plain old interested, I turned Chris, who happens to speak a fine bit of German and asked him translate, or at least find out what was being said.

With that being said, he waited like an inpatient adolescent at great adventure for the opening to spitball in German with these nice krauts and be the one we all envy for knowing another language.

As time had passed and so had the possibility of an opportunity to jump in, we had our last round of shots, Patron of course, and were getting ready to depart this establishment and head out for a boat ride. At this exact moment, like planned by professionals, one of the ladies turns to us and in the greatest of german accents says, "What kinds of Scnapps are yous having?"

As if handed the chance on a silver platter Chris answers in English, "Patron". And not just in english, but with a german accent as if to insult them. Now we just look like fools as oppossed to the well educated socialites out in the hamptons in the afternoon for coctails.

Sensing my discrace and now sensing opportunity himself he forges into an exchange of true Germans at a beer garden in Munchen. I later find out he told them how good Patron was chilled and the ladies made a sexual comment about it effects later on also. Grandious chuckles were exchanged and we said "Guten Tag", and went on our way.

This just goes to show you that possesing the ability to speak other languages comes in handy at the most unthinkable moments......
I will laugh for ever

"What kinds of Scnapps are yous having?"