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19 Dec 2007, 3:39 pm

Since my work involves serving customers behind a trade counter, I'm being asked how I am and whether we have been busy about forty times a day every day. And I'm supposed to answer the same thing every time! I wonder how I have not been driven mad!! (Seriously, I must have become accustomed to it by now)

Another question I don't like being asked is where I come from. Since I don't live in my country of origin, people notice my accent and ask. It makes me feel like I can't put my past behind me.



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20 Dec 2007, 4:50 am

smallholder wrote:
Since my work involves serving customers behind a trade counter, I'm being asked how I am and whether we have been busy about forty times a day every day. And I'm supposed to answer the same thing every time! I wonder how I have not been driven mad!! (Seriously, I must have become accustomed to it by now)

Another question I don't like being asked is where I come from. Since I don't live in my country of origin, people notice my accent and ask. It makes me feel like I can't put my past behind me.


Why won't you get a voice recorder and stick it under the counter!! !! !



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20 Dec 2007, 2:08 pm

My "English for Beginners" textbook says the correct answer to
"How are you?" is
"All right! And you?"

Hope it helps those who didn't knew. :P



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20 Dec 2007, 3:47 pm

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Why won't you get a voice recorder and stick it under the counter!! !! !


That sounds like a nice bit of fun... but it would likely make my customers talk about the issue even more, which I don't think I want!



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20 Dec 2007, 3:51 pm

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My "English for Beginners" textbook says the correct answer to
"How are you?" is
"All right! And you?"


Yes, this is the correct answer, but not the true one. I don't like my job and have acute emotional problems, so really I am not happy to have to tell people I'm all right when I'm not. But that's what I answer anyway, because it's the easiest solution.