Time for a quick rant. A bite sized “going off on one” session if you will.
Every day at work when I am downstairs I have to put up with peopleof a non British background. They all seem to have two things in common. They have no sense of personal space and no patience or consideration. The other day I was just finishing a transaction when the woman behind is trying to hand in her slip OVER the person in front who was still trying to put his money in his wallet. I knew the second she did it that she would be foreign and sure enough she was.
Then I had to wait for a couple of (I think) Polish people to look at a product. They wasted about 10 minutes of my time while pissing around trying to decide whether to spend an extra ten quid on the better model and then tried to ask me questions about it in VERY broken English. Listen carefully people… I DON’T SPEAK ANY OTHER LANGUAGE BUT ENGLISH. It is truly pointless standing there trying to say something in a different language while pointing at things because I haven’t got a fucking clue what the hell you are yabbering on about. And if you and your surprisingly hairy girlfriend want to discuss the pros and cons of a pair of hair products then for fuck sake do it on your own time and let me serve other people who ACTUALLY SPEAK ENGLISH.
To be honest if you live in this country then you should speak English. Bus drivers for instance tend to need to be able to understand things. When I said “town centre please” to one the other day he couldn’t understand me.!!! What the hell are you doing driving a bus if you actually don’t speak the lingo.? How in hell do you recognise road signs and things like that if the limit of your language ability is “Jon and Jane Play With A Ball”.
Xenophobic.? Me.? Not at all. In fact I love foreign people (except the Americans, Europeans (excluding the Dutch and Swedish), Chinese, Australians…) oh actually wait a second.. I am in fact a xenophobe with a delightful disgust for other nations. Is that really so bad though.? Everyone else does it to us so why should I enjoy the Yanks calling us Limeys or the Aussies terming us as “Bloody Poms”. Why should I pretend that other nations interest me when they honestly don’t (Egypt aside).
Leave me in my splendid isolation and let us rebuild the English Empire.
Anyone for a little slavery on de plantation Massa.?