On 12/09/2013 21:50, Emery Davis wrote:
> here's a little incident that happened to me today.
>
> Waiting at the pharmacy, we witnessed the gentleman just in front of us,
> apparently not a French speaker, hold out his iPhone to the pharmacist
> with a poorly pronounced "s'il vous plait?" She smiled, shrugged and told
> him "Sorry, we don't have that here, try the Nicolas (wine store) next
> door." When I asked her what it was all about, she responded "He asked
> for a Cremant d'Alsace, but I don't know anything about wine!"

One interesting thing about that anecdote is that, despite a professed
ignorance of wine, the woman behind the counter did know what a Crémant
d'Alsace was. Try it in the UK, and the assistant would scurry to the
qualified pharmacist, who would be puzzled and probably assume it was
some weird remedy that they don't stock.

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