Unintended Indecency at Burger King
From Michael Quinion’s WorldWideWords newsletter this week:
- I found this in the Observer for 23 October: “At first my sister
and I used nets to catch minnows in the local river, but on my
first proper fly-fishing trip, when I was eight, I caught an 8lb
rainbow trout and was absolutely hooked.”- “I went to my local Burger King last night,” writes Douglas Yates,
“and found that the staff member serving me had a sign on top of
her till saying ‘I am being trained. Please bare with me’. Although
she was a most attractive young lady, I politely declined her kind
offer.”
Posted by Nathan Bierma on 11/08 at 02:15 PM
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