and i thought i spoke english....

apparently not!

classic case of miscommunication or shall we say male deafness....

so ben's had a migraine all day and been home in bed, i've been fighting what i hope is not going to turn into the flu for a day or so and finally come home from work mid afternoon only to fall on the couch and cover myself with a doona...

coupla hours after that i look at ben and say 'chinese?', even though i took organic beef sausages out of the freezer this morning, i know i do not have the energy (nor frankly the inclination) to cook tonight...

yep, chinese it is! so we have twice picked up dinner from this place in neutral bay (mido) and the food has been good - not the best chinese i've ever had but good nonetheless...

so tonight i figure i'll call them to see if they'll deliver - my criteria tonight for good chinese being that it arrives at my door without me having to leave the couch..

so far so good - a girl answers the phone - not the one who's usually there when we go - the crankiest and most abrupt girl on the planet - a nice one who speaks really good english...

so i say to her - do you do home delivery? yes she says, where you live? i tell her naremburn and clarify by saying 'behind st leonards' - she doesn't even respond but simply hands the phone over the old guy who works there

he says hello, i ask him if they deliver to naremburn and almost before i finish talking he says 'no sorry' and hangs up the phone...

ok, so we look on the internet at a few more local chinese restaurants but we figure we've had food from mido before, it's good and i could drive there even tho i didn't really want to...

so i ring up to order and he asks if i want home delivery (this is the SAME guy i talked to the first time) - i say sure but i called a while ago and you told me you didn't deliver to naremburn - he says 'of course we do home delivery'....so i tell him the order and then when he asks for my address and i tell him he says 'we don't deliver there'....and i point out to him that we went through all of that just a little while earlier and for the 3rd time in the conversation he calls me 'sir' even though i've told him it's 'madam'...

fuck, how hard is it? seriously? sure we don't speak the same language, sure i have a cold and my already deep voice might sound a little deeper than usual, but fuck me....

anyway, we got chinese and it was good, and they did deliver to naremburn!!!