Last night we hit the cinema using the voucher Rob and Sandra got us as a present (we left the popcorn and candy at home just in case we were asked to share) - thanks you guys ! Anyways, it turned out we were just shy of the ticket price, so Alma whipped out the old debit card and proceeded to ask if she could "PIN" - the Dutch equivalent of using your debit card. Oddly enough the lady behind the counter didn't immediately cop exactly what she had in mind and proceeded to question Alma's true intention. As is typical in a foreign land, when one doesn't immediately understand you, it MUST mean they're deaf, so Alma again repeated that she'd like to "PIN" but obviously this time in a much louder voice. At this point I decided, to give her an auld nudge and whispered "debit card".
Clearly shook by the whole incident she then proceeded to try to slip past the guy collecting the tickets ... even though she had just bought them. Old habits die hard - you can take the girl out of Glynn, but you can't quite take the Glynn out of the girl.
Alma a ticket dodger. I knew it...
ReplyDeleteIt could have been worse though - PIN might have had some sort of colloquial meaning...friends of our were thinking of calling their new girl "Pippa" after the royal sister in law...so I checked it out and it means Fanny (not the US version) in Poland and Sweden. Hmmm. Best to do your research on these things...
Again Will, half a story and the punch line missing - what was the film for God's sake? Was it good? Did it have a Hollywood ending?