'I didn't even realize this is what I had been saying in French until I returned to the States...'
"I’m a Canadian, and I was traveling in Switzerland. I had a very embarrassing time trying to buy veggies. Here, you have to weigh and sticker your veggies yourself in the produce department. In Canada, the cashier weighs and prices the veggies for you at the till...""With my extremely limited German, I could not understand what the Swiss cashier was explaining as she refused to let me buy unstickered veggies...
"In Russia, I wanted to buy meat from the deli counter. I didn't fancy trying to explain the weight I wanted, so I pointed at some pre-packaged meat trays behind a glass counter. She looked at me confused and told me to 'take it,' in Russian. I was like, 'I can't, it's behind glass.' I went like this for a while until I thought I'd demonstrate and put my hand on the glass. It wasn't glass, just fresh air.
"... I corresponded with the hotel throughout the summer, arranging for parking and selecting which unit I'd stay in. The hotel had a weekly newsletter they sent me about happenings in their town, and I read it in anticipation. We had a wonderful time exploring the island, and at the end of the trip, we arrived in St. John's, but we couldn't find our hotel anywhere.
We had the street address, and although we found the street it was on, there was no hotel on it. Finally, we turned on the internet and asked Google for directions to the hotel, only to learn we were 24 hours away by car. The charming hotel was in St. John, New Brunswick... not St. John’s, Newfoundland. The owners were lovely and gave me a complete refund. They said people always make that mistake .""I booked a red-eye flight for the East Coast.
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