Of course, back in college, I read a "literary" short story about two people who meet in a bus station, both with longish layovers. You know the type -- nothing at all happens in the story... But the thing that stuck in my mind was one woman suggests to the other that they go and get milkshakes. "Milkshakes?" the other woman says? The fist woman actually describes a milkshake -- yes ladies and gentlemen, written by an American and for an American audience, but we needed to get over the minimum word limit. The second woman responds, "Oh. In Binghamton, we call them frappes."
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Date: 2008-03-09 01:55 pm (UTC)Of course, back in college, I read a "literary" short story about two people who meet in a bus station, both with longish layovers. You know the type -- nothing at all happens in the story...
But the thing that stuck in my mind was one woman suggests to the other that they go and get milkshakes.
"Milkshakes?" the other woman says?
The fist woman actually describes a milkshake -- yes ladies and gentlemen, written by an American and for an American audience, but we needed to get over the minimum word limit.
The second woman responds, "Oh. In Binghamton, we call them frappes."
To which I said (aloud) "No, we don't."