Guest just arrived and wants to cancel

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It’s an old joke that when the English go abroad they just speak more slowly and loudly when someone says they don’t understand. The logic being: if I speak slowly and loudly they’ll understand.

For the record there is no Mr Zandra but if there were I suspect shouting wouldn’t be intimate at all.

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My mum used to get in a right pickle because she would use colloquialisms that non-English speakers didn’t understand. I well remember her at Koln Airport talking to a German friend of my dad’s …

‘Oh you’ll have to excuse me because I’m all at sixes and sevens today … I mean, I’m all upside down … I mean I’m all thumbs,’

Poor bloke. :slight_smile:

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LOL!! Hilarious !

I can imagine that :slight_smile:

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Then, she said ‘Have I put my foot in it? Sorry about the palaver…’

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Can’t beat a good idiom …

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Suite you are having such a rough go lately… maybe better guests grace your place and bad guests begone!!!

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My thoughts exactly. Perhaps mother didn’t want to take a trip. A mother who complains no matter what and an adult child who makes every attempt to accommodate her. Some people are never happy. Sometimes your the pawn. At least you don’t have to live with it.

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