While Stephen was setting up his voicemail on his phone:
Stephen: Meg!? Hey Meg!?
Me: What??
Stephen: What the heck is a pound key?? There is no pound symbol on this phone and it’s telling me to hit the pound key.
::walks over to him and points to the # on the phone::
Me: It’s this one…
Stephen: That is a hashtag. I don’t understand you Americans sometimes.
Me: You can imagine my confusion when twitter happened. I kept saying “pound” instead of “hashtag” in my head.
While driving and someone cuts us off:
Stephen: Ugh stupid pleb
Me: What is a pleb???
Stephen: You know, like base.
Me: What is a base?? You can’t give me an example of a word with another word I don’t know.
Stephen: base is the lowest of the low. A commoner.
Me: Oh. Good one.
Stephen: Babe, you know what I just realized the other day?
Me: What?
Stephen: Why you guys have those little bags of crackers at restaurants
Me: huh?
Stephen: People put them in their soups! What are those crackers called again?
Me: like Saltines?
Stephen: Ya those. People put them in their soups! I find that so strange.
Me: How was your day?
Stephen: I was running around all day like a blue arsed fly
Me: Oh. Sounds productive…
so funny… i love all those “lost in translation” moments!
Oh I died. They just kept getting better as I read on. Favorites: traffic and ranch. Love!
This is just the most fantastic. Especially the last one. I get lost in accents alllllll the time.
That last one sounds like something I would say to him hahaha
Hahaha yesssss, I think this feature MIGHT be my very favorite part of your blog, maybe? 🙂 I feel like the last two conversations is what I’m like whenever I’m talking to anyone from the UK hahaha. And also, you guys should do a vlog together!
Too. funny. every single time! that’s how I felt about his accent, too!
I love it, love it all but I am dying at the “raunch” one.
LOVE it! 🙂 All of it. So much fun… though I’m getting made fun of for my southern accent up here in Canada this week… damnit.
The “raunch” story especially made me giggle. And I am with your friend in that I have been trying to introduce “fancy” into my vocabulary. For some reason it doesn’t want to stick though. 🙂
I think we need a video of S so we can hear that accent!!!
Love these!!!
lol! this reminds me of when my mom and stepdad (he’s English) starting dating and went to get ice cream and he ordered “hundreds of thousands” for sprinkles and noone knew what was going on.
also, for what it’s worth i’d call it a roger rabbit teddy bear too!
So funny – please keep posting these – they’re hilarious 🙂
The last one haha! Those are so sweet and funny!
Can S please do a video-blog so I can hear that accent!!! 🙂
holy canneloni, this made me laugh so much. I have almost spilled my entire coffee! thank you, for such a great start into my tuesday.
“Ranch” and “Fancy” stories ! Love them!
i said the same thing to my friends about driving. there’s no time. this is la. 🙂 and raunch totally made my day. plus yeah, who would want to listen to a story…the accent is so much better 😉
These are my favorites! Is it kind of fun now he is the one that has to adapt rather than you?
I love these! Just too cute.
The Ranch/Raunch. Dying over here.
these are the best. i am dying. thank you for making my monday suck less. also, i think stephen needs to do a video. because this would be SO much better if we could hear him talk. because i agree with the last comment about the accent!
I’m sitting at work and just died laughing. I can actually hear S saying raunch for ranch. Classic.
Y’all are the best. Thanks for making my morning.
hahaha,,
the last one cracks me up. i can totally relate about time with traffic and time without traffic. if you ever been in a traffic in Jakarta, you would never complaint about traffic anywhere else ever again.
My husband and I have these conversations daily, and we have been married 6.5 years! He has a hard time ordering water and Bass (beer) in the US, the servers never, ever understand him. Ever.
These posts are my favourites! (along with all the other posts you do 😉 ) Sexy accents make the most boring topics interesting, don’t they 😉 Do make a video of you both talking! I’d love that! I’m sure all the ladies here would agree with me 😉
bahahahahaha!!! love!! (:
I love these convos! Please let S know that when I was 7 years old, I watched Who Framed Roger Rabbit 27 times in one week. And I made Eric go on the ride with me multiple times the first time I went to Disneyland (sadly, that was just 4 years ago…)
I love when you post your conversations, they’re too funny! But I’m with Stephen on the pronunciation of oregano. My argument is that it’s spelled the same way as Oregon, the state, but with an o on the end.
The last two especially made me giggle. I’d do that last one, I’d be that American. I recently went on a BBC spree on Netflix. My daughter is not amused with my new vocabulary or accents. I think it’s mostly because she can’t do one.
RAUNCH?! I died. I need to marry a foreigner so conversations like this can happen.
haha this is so me and my boyfriend! I really don’t get the every stuffed animal is a teddy bear, it drives me nuts! And the oregano debate is a constant. As well as aluminum.
These were funny to read! Loved that last part about his accent! I don’t blame your friend for saying that, accents are cute!! 🙂
As I am typing this, I am still laughing. Especially the last one, where poor Stephen was telling his story hahaha 🙂
Oh! please write similar posts more often! Wish I could find an Irish guy in Scotland too 🙂
xx
The Stephen in America edition of our culture lessons are HILARIOUS!
And I could listen all day long, too.
Hahahahahahaha! This is the best! Keep em coming 🙂
This is hilarious! I think you and Stephen should publish a book with conversations like these–it’d be a hit!
The oregano pronunciation thing must be totally be a UK thing because my friend pronounces it just the way Stephen does too.
The best post to start a Monday!
too funny. oh ‘merica!
Bless his heart lol