This is the basic skeleton of a conversation I have now had several times:
"Hi, can I have an iced tea please?"
"I'm sorry you american scum we don't do that here."
"But you have ice, and you have tea."
"You disgust me little american girl. Go back to your walmarts and frat parties."
I am not making such a horrible request! Come on! Your menu doesn't say "toasted bagel" but you still toast them for Kelly! And I make sure I ask for this "special, painstaking" request when there's not one else in line so I won't be holding anyone up. Even at the cafe down the street that I frequent (i'm there right now actually) where they know us kelly and I go so frequently, he was like, "um no we don't have that" yes you do! you just don't know it yet!
I may have to invest in a pitcher. I've already started regularly dumping out my ice trays and refilling them so that, when the time comes, I'll be ready. Sometimes if you want something done right you just have to do it yourself! Then I will proceed to take my iced tea down to the cafe and drink it with more pleasure than is due. They'll change their minds I'm sure.
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So, Lindy, which way is this exchange program going to work - is Scotland going to change you, or are you going to change Scotland?
I'm betting on you winning this contest!
I don't know what it is about Europe and Ice - you'd have thought the Glaciers just cleared out and they fear all things cold! My mother once asked for "another" ice cube in her class of Scotch (in Scotland) and the barman took a spoon, fished out the one ice cube in her glass, and replaced it with a fresh one!
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