Overheard Friday at Jamba Juice in Alameda, CA:
Vietamese-American Jamba Juice employee with a California sufer-dude accent: Whoa! Those are some pretty heavy accents. Where are you from?
Woman #1: Ireland.
Employee: (Giving a combination blank stare/deer in the headlights smile) Where's that?
Woman #1: (Looking at woman #2 with one of those "are you kidding me?" smiles) Ireland. It's near England.
Employee: Never heard of it.
Woman #2: Ireland? You've never heard of it? It's a country. You know...overseas.
Employee: (Three second beat, followed by...) Ohhh...yeah...Ireland. Heh! I thought Ireland was a state here in America.
He hands both women their drinks, they thank him and make their way to the exit.
Woman #1: (To Woman #2, as they walk past me and out the door) Oh, dear!
Overheard Friday at Jamba Juice in Alameda, CA: