To be fair, when I was doing my work experience, one of the guys was a Glaswegian with an accent so thick that a common joke around the canteen was "sorry, was that in English?"
It took me a week and a half (of two weeks) to notice that he was missing a finger, during which time I'd seen him typing, driving, and rolling cigarettes - because I'd been concentrating so hard on understanding his accent...
(I did see him briefly every day, but only spent two or three full days in his company.)
Re: missing the two middle fingers
Date: 2008-01-09 04:22 pm (UTC)It took me a week and a half (of two weeks) to notice that he was missing a finger, during which time I'd seen him typing, driving, and rolling cigarettes - because I'd been concentrating so hard on understanding his accent...
(I did see him briefly every day, but only spent two or three full days in his company.)