Or, “Clueless, Just Take the Euro!”
Eurospin Giveaway, apparently, works this way: a certain supermarket customer, randomly passing through the checkout line, is offered an immersion blender for a Euro.
When U have an uncertain Italian student, who is basically flunking out, the whole transaction goes to pot: first, the clerk tries her hand in Italian; then, a customer in broken English takes a spin.
Finally, in mock-exasperation, she exclaims “Just take the Euro!” The one, apparently, she has been trying to hand me, lord knows why, for some time.
And with that financial exchange, apparently, the conversational exchange is completed.
“Do you know what just happened?” Reb asks as we are leaving the store. “Of course not,” I reply in my best student voice.
Only when we get home and read the printed receipt does the clue finally arrive: “Frullatore ad immer” (1,00 Euro) is printed out below the “Subtotale.” In other words, the immersion blender was at the bottom of this language lesson all the time.
John Davis said:
Sounds a lot like the old bluelight special down at K-Mart, combined with a Lotto peel-off.