On a trip to Germany back in 1970 we had the pleasure of staying at a fancy hotel in Munich....
The room up on the top floor had sloped ceilings a marble bath complete with
a telephone and a beautiful big glass top table...
Actually our room was up in the attic......but we were 20 and 21....What did we know.
After checking in the husband decided we needed some drinks and back in the
70's they didn't have soda machines down the hall.....
So in his best German he attempted to order room service...
He picks up the phone and this is what I hear.....
"I would like zwei Cola-Cola mit ice-n"
translation.....2 Cokes with ice.
why is it when people try to speak another language they tend to add
letters onto English words....
Have you ever heard anyone trying to speak Spanish....
the letter "O" usually gets added to the end of everything.....
Like this is going to make the poor person understand you better...
In this case Coca-Cola became Cola-Cola.....like a college cheer
and the letter "N" got added to ice.....
Room service guy shows up a few minutes later with 2 little glass coke bottles...
2 glasses of "ice-n"....on a tray and places it on the glass table.....
Gives us a look like we're two American nuts and leaves....
I'm hysterical by this point just from hearing Cola-Cola....
Husband picks up the Coke bottle and it promptly slides out of his hand....
Falling on the glass table and shattering the glass in a million pieces....
next morning we check out of the room and casually mention to the front desk clerk that the glass on the table broke and to please charge us on the bill for the damage....
He misunderstood us......thinking we broke "A" glass he added zwei dollars to the
bill.....Husband in his best English said....
Thank You......and we quickly departed out the front door.....
40 years later and we are still laughing at
"zwei Cola-Cola mit ice-n"....
