April 25, 2006
Overheard at Starbucks
"Some people watch soap-operas, have their stories. I don't need the daily dramas but when occasionally stressed I've found BBC- mysteries work like a valium."
---"Clubby white people with problems."
"Maybe it's their superior actors?"
---"You are aware there's nothing about your Milwaukee up-bringing and your life in the Dairy State that's remotely British?"
"Maybe it's their writers' command of the language?"
---"Any Brit would see right through you ...your 'dems' and 'dose', your ill-fitting clothes, your American education....There're probably a few former Soviet Republics where someone like you might be welcomed, seen as interesting. Initially anyway."
"Maybe it's their accents?"
---"Romania, Bulgaria, any of the Balkan countries."
Posted by Stubbornson at April 25, 2006 02:33 PM