Elisa's Blog
Thursday, October 27, 2005
 
:)

This morning I was at the cafeteria vending machine, when I ran into Ulrich, a guy from our company's site in Germany who was visiting this week after one of our company's user conferences in nearby Las Vegas.

We chit-chatted for a bit, exchanging the usual polite pleasantries, when as luck would have it the potato chips I was trying to purchase got stuck in the vending machine panels. When our exchange came at an end, and partly as an excuse to exit gracefully, I mentioned my quandry to my friend, and announced I was going to fetch another $0.75 to purchase my chips again.

Without any hesistation, he said, in heavily accented English: "Shall I borrow you something, so that you don't have to walk?", and immediately produced a dollar bill.

My cube is only 10 meters away from the cafeteria, so I expressed my thanks and declined the offer, but all the way to my cube and back to the vending machine (where my chips got stuck again for the second time, by the way), and then back again, I smiled as I thought that, with the broken English making it all the more endearing, how nice it was that in some countries guys still know how to be gentlemen.

- posted by Elisa @ 10:41 AM
Comments:
I would've shaken the machine until the chips gave way. Americans are just a different kind of gentleman. :)
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : Thu Oct 27, 08:06:00 PM PDT
 
Heh heh. Yes. You're right. And not any less endearing.

:)
# posted by Blogger Elisa : Fri Oct 28, 10:38:00 AM PDT
 
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