for Americans who choose to shop with English citizens: Prepare an autobiographical summary of the UK citizen before going to shop.
This will significantly narrow down questions from sales staff, such as:
- Where are you from, if you don’t mind my asking?
- How did you meet your fiancee, seeing that you lived 4,000 miles away?
- What about that political incident in 1953 when there was that thing that England did?
- Let’s talk about the upside and downside of the NHS, ok? Because we might be headed in that direction.
- Where exactly IS Milton Keynes?
- Any other question involving something only a UK Citizen would know… petrol prices? Riding the tube? Gordon Brown?
After jewelry store #4, we hit the Verizon kiosk to talk about cell phone coverage. The sales girl was mid “I don’t know anything about Verizon. I’m a former Alltel employee” when she also had loads of questions about everything English.
I guess after 4 hours of searching for wedding rings, I may have lost a bit of my sense of humour. 😀
All fixed with roast chicken, wine and several “I love you’s” from Ian. 😀
Just in the event you’re curious, this is what American cell phones and cell phone plans look like. I see we even have T-Mobile service now, which we didn’t before. I like the T-Mobile Sidekick, pictured at the left.