Thread: old people and stupid sayings - a tuesday morning rant
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Unread 26 Apr 2005, 18:21   #15
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Re: old people and stupid sayings - a tuesday morning rant
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Originally Posted by Kurashima
My personal favourite was when one of my colleagues advised a customer "Give me a second , ill just be a minute"

Im not nearly pedantic enough to explain to her why what she said was stupid, but it amused me greately.

I do things like that

I never realised until university but then all the non locals started picking me, and other Welsh people up on it. We would apparently say things like "I will be there now" when we would mean 5 minutes or "be there now in 20 minutes" as well as loads similar to what your example.
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