Funny cafe moments

A couple of amusing moments over coffee whilst skiing in Austria, that I wanted to share with you.

1. Going for a quick coffee in the town of Mayrhofen with Ellistine and his Mrs on the morning of their departure, whilst waiting for their tranfer bus to arrive, only to wait somewhere in the region of 25 minutes to even be served.....

2. First morning in BKK a couple of years back, very hungover and probably still drunk, having decended for the first time what can only be described as a shiny wet sheet of glass, and deciding we needed a drink. Skidaddle ordered a Fanta Orange, and got a bottle of clear water with some furry sediment in the bottom, whilst I chose something stronger.
"Guten morgen" I said in my best Austrian accent. "Ein kaffee bitte"
"Mit sahne?" came the reply, and assuming it would mean white coffee I responded "Ja!"
slurp slurp gurgle gurgle
and I was handed what is best described as a cup with a knickerbocker glory climbing out the top.
"Was ist das?" I enquired
"Sahne" she replied.
"Scheisse" I said, making a beeline for the toilet.....

3. Up on the slopes in Mayrhofen with Mrs H, having arranged to meet Skidaddle in a mountain cafe. He finally appeared out of the fog, and we trotted off in our ski boots to the window where outside service is ordered. Let me explain, Skidaddle tries hard to adopt the lingo, but he only has one accent which I can only describe as "European". I ordered my 2 white coffees, difficult enough to carry on a large flat shiny tray wearing ski boots across an icy path at the best of times, but which becamse impossible as I ran over to Mrs H in tears of laughter having heard Skidaddle order a drink and a chocolate bar:
"Ein kaffee bitte, et une snickeeeeuuuuurrrrrzzzzzzz" in the sort of accent that would have got him auditioned for Allo Allo.
By the time I made it back to Mrs H, there was only a dribble of coffee left in the saucer, so I was left licking it from the tray......

I think you had to be there.

Anyone else got any funny cafe moments?

That's great, isn't zahne teeth? Since it literally mean with teeth. I guess it gets lost in translation its a good thing I'll be living in Austria for awhile.

I took my sis to Breck and she tried skiiing for the first time and of course fell down and hurt her knee. So of course she spent the rest of the day in the lodge area. I took advantage of the wonderful conditions and came in to the lodge absolutely drained. I found my sis and sat down and promptly hammered down some schnapps then I fell asleep in someones clothes thinking they were my sisters. I was woken up by an Austrian. He woke me up in the best German way. AUFSTEHEN! KLIENE FRAU! I was half asleep and said Jenn ( my sis) My your german has gotten better. I looked up and saw this guy standing over me and said My what huge hands you have, the better to strangle with. he proceeded to rattle off more German. I said Hey Buddy Ich verstehen DU and I slugged off.

funny moment in alpe d'huez last year, there was a rather large jump set up with balloons, flags, a comentator, right next to the bar. 26 of us sat and watched our mate give it a go, crash and burn. I got it on video too.

this year in tignes we were amused by a boarder who ran past us and had to keep pulling up his (already very low) trousers. it tickled me pink :lol:

Cafe in Arc 2000. 4 of us wander in at 4pm tired and wanting a warm drink to chase away the chill caused by the foul weather. Waiter walks up, and barks BOISSONS?? at us. Okay we're a bit slow with the local dialect, but it was at machine gun speed. This does not work for the waiter so he tries again, volume like the place is full...

BOISSONS??

He's looking a bit peeved by now and we're trying to get up to speed with the accent. He's obviously got some stupeed jonny foreigner in his establishment, so he gives it one last go as we are clearly deaf as well....

BOISSONS??

At last he gets through, we get our coffee and hot choccy, but strangely he fails to score a tip :lol: