i. i was here first ii. i am already bein servediii. guttin and cleanin two mackerel takes 45 secs soup to nuts (and we are already at the cheese stage)iv. there are two ppl serving anyway; i am the only customer in the shop except you v. this is a fish shop in lower clapton road, there is no way you have a "taxi waiting" vi. using the window as per normative practice, we can all actually SEE there is no taxi
haha the shop-owners - who are turkish but speak perfectly good english - have switched to maximum "me no speakee" just to hold this person up; she is havin to explicate the needless excuse loudly and carefully even though she is now the ONLY CUSTOMER IN THE SHOP and TWO PEOPLE ARE FREE TO SERVE HER
― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 25 June 2005 10:32 (twenty years ago)
― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 25 June 2005 10:33 (twenty years ago)
― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Saturday, 25 June 2005 10:36 (twenty years ago)
Everything about this sentence fills me with joy.
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 25 June 2005 23:00 (twenty years ago)
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 25 June 2005 23:01 (twenty years ago)
― rainy (rainy), Saturday, 25 June 2005 23:03 (twenty years ago)
― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 25 June 2005 23:07 (twenty years ago)
this is one of my fave threads ever even tho it petered out so quickly. I've quoted mark s's description of the events in that fishmongers quite a few times to non ilx-ers and they've all found it really funny!
― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 13:26 (nineteen years ago)
a response to a event invite that 499 other people were invited to which unnecessarily explains in painstaking, Tolstoy-esque length the reason you could not make it and how sorry you are.
― earosmith (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 23 August 2023 04:21 (two years ago)
"Can you type this up, please, I'm hopeless with technology."
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 23 August 2023 05:23 (two years ago)