Comments on: The problem with apples http://trufflesforbreakfast.com/2007/08/05/the-problem-with-apples/ ...in which two dreamers simplify their lives and move to Paris Fri, 21 Oct 2011 05:52:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Morgen Jahnke http://trufflesforbreakfast.com/2007/08/05/the-problem-with-apples/comment-page-1/#comment-59 Morgen Jahnke Sun, 05 Aug 2007 21:58:25 +0000 http://trufflesforbreakfast.com/2007/08/05/the-problem-with-apples/#comment-59 <p>Glenn:</p> <p>Joe and I have found that we can understand what people are saying...when they're speaking to the other person! When someone addresses me directly in a stressful situation, I feel a bit like a deer in the headlights, unable to make sense of the words flying at me. On the other hand, when someone asks Joe a question, I can usually make sense out of what they say :)</p> <p>We haven't yet tried our luck on the railways, but I'm sure we will show our ignorance in a multitude of ways when that day arrives!</p> Glenn:

Joe and I have found that we can understand what people are saying…when they’re speaking to the other person! When someone addresses me directly in a stressful situation, I feel a bit like a deer in the headlights, unable to make sense of the words flying at me. On the other hand, when someone asks Joe a question, I can usually make sense out of what they say :)

We haven’t yet tried our luck on the railways, but I’m sure we will show our ignorance in a multitude of ways when that day arrives!

]]> By: Glenn Fleishman http://trufflesforbreakfast.com/2007/08/05/the-problem-with-apples/comment-page-1/#comment-56 Glenn Fleishman Sun, 05 Aug 2007 16:43:53 +0000 http://trufflesforbreakfast.com/2007/08/05/the-problem-with-apples/#comment-56 <p>Had the same problem in Basel, but was able to figure out when they said, "Sie haben die Gewicht nicht gemarkt" or something like that the "Gewicht" (weight) was missing!</p> <p>I also had this problem throughout Europe in train stations as to when i was supposed to put my ticket in the little stamping thing that put a date and time and other code on the ticket's back. The train conductors were universally pleasant about it, but I never quite figured out WHEN i was supposed to do it.</p> Had the same problem in Basel, but was able to figure out when they said, “Sie haben die Gewicht nicht gemarkt” or something like that the “Gewicht” (weight) was missing!

I also had this problem throughout Europe in train stations as to when i was supposed to put my ticket in the little stamping thing that put a date and time and other code on the ticket’s back. The train conductors were universally pleasant about it, but I never quite figured out WHEN i was supposed to do it.

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