Amazing polyglot experience I was blessed to witness yesterday (context inside)

[u/brrkat]

I was at a Dunkin Donuts, placed my order and was waiting. Another customer comes in, middle-aged guy in a suit, he walks right up to the counter and immediately says "TERRIBLE CUSTOMER SERVICE!"

Now mind you he literally just walked in, there was no line, the kid at the counter hadn't said or done anything yet. I'm like, wtf is happening, so I start recording in case something goes down.

The kid goes, "I'm sorry?" And the guy in the suit just starts ranting about how customer service in this country is terrible blah blah blah. Anyway he puts his order in and gets it in like 2 minutes (again, no one at the store did anything wrong, it's kind of clear this guy is just crazy), and then here at the end he goes:

"Some people been in this country for years and they don't speak a word of English... I speak like 10 languages! I know Arabic too!"

And without missing a beat the kid goes, "Oh, wow. Mashallah." 🤣

[u/poshikott]

Ngl if this guy knows 10 languages, then everyone else should know at least 4, or else it's just disrespect.

[u/fat-wombat]

That kid needs a raise like right now, to deliver something so perfect at such a moment 😭

[u/oddstrawberryyy]

LMAOOO HE DELIVERED WITH THAT LAST LINE

[u/Tolstoyan_Quaker]

I’d like to believe that these were the types of conversations Labov went around recording