Nov 15, 2014

A funny story in Tim Hortons



One Korean man entered Tim Hortons for a cup of coffee. After paying, he asked a staff for a receipt. Then, the staff rejected to give the receipt to him. The man was really pissed off and kept asking but the staff never gave it to him.

Several years ago, I stayed in a canadian homestay house. One day, the homestay mother told me a funny story from his Korean student.

There is a popular coffee shop in Canada, Tim Hortons. One Korean student bought a cup of coffee and requested a receipt but a staff flatly refused. He kept asking but the staff never gave it to him.

The Korean student was not good at speaking English and he couldn't argue with the staff anymore. He just heard 'No' from the staff.

There was no way for him and he came back home. He started to talk about what happened to his homestay mother. When he finished his story, she laughed out loud.

He talked to the staff like this,

The student : Can I have a recipe?"
The staff : No way.

He took a receipt for a recipe. He used a word ' recipe' and the staff thought he was trying to find out how to make Tim Hortons coffee.

It's very difficult to learn a foreign language and we often make this kind of mistake while learning. However, a mistake becomes another experience and knowledge. We don't have to be afraid of making mistakes. We should be afraid of doing nothing.

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