So, the family and I (and by "family" I mean my Mom, Dad, Sister, Brother-In-Law, Niece, Nephew, Nephew's Girlfriend, Cora and The Daughter) all spent a week together for my parent's 50 Wedding Anniversary out in Huron, Ohio. Their actual anniversary was in January, but Mom wanted us all to vacation together as a family for a week together.
On the second night we were out there, we were having dinner at a restaurant, and I called the waitress over to ask her a question.
SCOPE - "There's a town south of here called 'M-I-L-A-N'. How do you pronounce it?"
WAITRESS – " 'MY-lin'."
SCOPE - "Oh, that's how we pronounce the name of the city in Illinois, too. But I was wondering if you pronounced it 'Mi-lan'…
WAITRESS - "You mean like the car?"
SCOPE (pokerfaced) - "Yes, like the car."
Not the city in Italy, people. The thing that spring to her mind was the discontinued Mercury Milan. I cried a little inside.
6 comments:
Well, at least she didn't say "you mean like the People's Court judge?" See, it could be worse. Right? ;-)
You did well with the poker face, I would not have handled that as good as you.
There's a 'Milan' car? Have I been living under a rock?
It's like DeKalb (De-Cab) County in Illinois vs. DeKalb (De-Cal-b) County here in Georgia. That drives me NUTS. Or Lafayette, WI, (La-fay-ette) versus Lafayette (Luh-fay-ette), GA.
I'm with So Cal Girl.
We must live under the same rock.
Cora - Wapner? :-)
Skydad - I almost hurt myself
So Cal & Candy - You need to stop fast forwarding thru the commercials. But being a Mercury, it was killed off a few years ago.
Joshua - I'm from LaFayette, IL. That's "Lay-FEE-ette"
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