Well hello all, I hope I'm not breaking banter protocol by jumping in on this threadwagon, I've never been too good at all that social malarkey.
Originally Posted by
LaZodiac
(I was making a joke about how Canadians are always apologetic but honestly given how thiings have been going for me it's super appreciated)
Not to make light of being in a bad place, but this reminds me a lot of when I was in university.
Specifically I had a Chinese friend who got annoyed at the British saying sorry all the time. Of course she was too polite to say this in private, but with the number of times I apologised for it she was almost ready to hit me.
About three years later I achieved ultimate Britishness when I apologised to my bag for tripping over it, a couple of weeks after apologising for turning up exactly on time for a meeting (to the minute, the lecturer was shocked).
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Also, minor note, that Chinese friend was probably the first person I seriously crushed on, and since then I've not had a single crush on somebody of my own nationality to the point it's a running joke with one of my friends.
Now what I originally planned to post before seeing the earlier ones.
I've recently started a new job (as in a month and a bit ago) and my accent has become a recurring joke among my colleagues because I just sound so much more posh than everybody (comes from growing up in the home counties and having speech therapy as a kid but working in central London). It's not bullying or anything, it's just one of those amusing things like them all assuming I'm in a relationship.