A Bartender's Fun-filled Night...

[pbmods]

I try my very hardest to ignore accents whenever possible after one of my staff made a minor faux pas with a commercial customer. The man had a decidedly Australian accent, and so the tech told the customer:

"I need your phone number for this order, but if you don't have a phone number in the US, I can just use your last name."

The customer proceeded to rattle off his office number from ACROSS THE STREET....

[Kogarashi]

I spent a summer in mid-state New York when I was 19 and people always asked where I was from because, "You sound just like the people on TV!"
(Though I have to say, I certainly wasn't expecting to hear people drawling in the State of New York.)

You'd be surprised what you find when you go crawling around the Catskills and the Finger Lakes region. Of course, that part of the state includes the northernmost parts of the Appalachian Mountains, which is known for hicks and rednecks.

Seriously, I've seen villages that basically amount to shanty towns (every house looks like a shack), with large satellite dishes, fancy cars, etc. all around them. And my cousins' favorite hunting tool is their pickup truck. As in they like to hit the animals with it as much as they like to shoot them with their rifles or bows. ::sigh::

[Jester]

UPDATE: Big Ugly came back tonight!

Not once, but twice!

First time, he wandered in, and it took me a moment, but then I recognized him. See, the sobriety threw me. He ordered the same drink from last night, and a munchie, and was quite civil and nice. Still a bit odd, but not nearly as crocked as last night. Said he remembered me and being in my bar, but still seemed a slight bit unnerved when I greeted him by name, remembered his drink, AND remembered his room number for the room charge. (I have, at times, a scary memeory.)

Later, the couple from the original post came back, and we were talking about Big Ugly and the night before, and I mentioned that he had been in earlier, far more sober than the night before. The couple seemed disappointed.

Until Big Ugly himself lumbered into the bar and plopped himself down on a bar stool, ordering his usal drink! No problems with him this time, but it was quite amusing, to say the least.

=) I grew up in Glendale, Arizona.

Go Zonies!!!

[Sofar]

I thought it was Zoner. Still cooler than "Arizonan" or whatever that list of names for citizens of different states has y'all down as.

[Jester]

People from Arizona are Arizonans. Though I often see and hear people refer to "Arizonians" which drives me nuts. As far as I know, there is no such thing as an "Arizonian."

"Zonie" is a word that started out as a derogatory term. San Diegans who were sick of Arizonans who came to San Diego on vacation began referring to them snidely as "Zonies." But us desert dwellers got the last laugh, as many of us adopted the term to describe ourselves. (Not the first or last instance of a derogatory term being adopted by the people it describes to proudly describe themselves.)