I had a really frustrating phone call this evening. Basically I got a call at about 7pm and it turned out to be one of my students. I teach a lot of people so I have no idea who it is, but basically she has a pretty difficult to decipher accent and speaks at a rate of about 200 words per minute. The gist of it was basically wanting to know if there were two acceptable answers for some fill in the blank grammar question. She said the sentence once and I honestly had no idea what she said. I could pick out the odd word, but really couldn't pick up the gist of it whatsover. I asked her to repeat and still it was over my head. Then she gave me the two so called possible answers and I couldn't answer as I had no idea what the sentence was. This went on for about 3 minutes and I didn't want to be rude and say that she was impossible to comprehend. She seems to speak pretty good english and has a decent lexical range, but speaks oddly. I tried telling her to send me an email and I would respond to it that way, but on trying to give her my email address she kept breaking off and talking about other off the wall things. "I haven't even given you my email address yet!", I protested. And tried again and again she broke off and started waffling. "Do you want an answer to this grammar question or what?" I was thinking. Eventually I got my address across and said I would respond when I get home and of course there is no email for me to check. Obviously didn't listen and was too busy trying to talk for bloody England.
So all in all what is the point in calling me for a non work related grammar question and to be speaking in incomprehensible code? That's my fascinating story of the day. Now for you to share your experiences with people you could not understand. I'm sorry my story isn't an exciting one, but I don't really live a very exciting life. I am not Jim Boogie. However, if you are mean to me I will tell you to fuck off.
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