Roy_H
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I've asked people to email questions, before - some people have such thick accents they make absolutely no sense whatsoever!
Just a few days before our farm sale My aunt came running into the yard looking very flustered and confused and she greeted me with the words "There's a man on the phone, I think he's Irish, I can't understand him, please would you come and have a word with him? ( When I picked up the phone I think the conversation started with "Well hello dere, its a long distance call from Ireland, I'm ringing to ask you about a couple of yer tractors yer selling in yer farm sale ") But the problem was that every time I tried to answer one of his questions (I had no trouble understanding his strong Irish accent by the way) he would reply " Er...what was dat dat you say?" , in other words he could not understand ME, in fact no matter how slowly and clearly I tried to speak with him I kept getting the same reply "What was dat dat you say?". So I thought "Sod it, here goes nothing" and I began to converse with him in the bestest "Father Ted" type Irish accent that I could muster ,( "Well now, I tells yer what, you'd better get yerself over here and have yerself a little bit of a look!" You know the sort of thing) I thought "OK if he is insulted and slams the phone down on me, so what, we aren't getting anywhere with this conversation anyway" Well well well, we had a right old natter after that, in fact he even jumped on the ferry and came to the sale (Whether he actually bought anything I can't honestly remember) What I do remember is when I had finished talking to him on the phone I found my aunt sitting on the sofa with a bright red face and with tears rolling down her cheeks with laughter ! She had overheard every word of the conversation : "I just don't know how you had the nerve to do that !" she said
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