Weird Q Did you ever know anyone who faked an accent in real life?

[OriginalGeek]

24. When I was 18~19

my best friend and I both got fired from our jobs on the same friday. So we're sitting in our apartment weighing our options and realized we had about 400 bucks saved up for rent. We had to choose between paying rent and having a place to live for the next 4 weeks so we could look for new jobs or blowing it all on a party.


PARTY! We hopped a plane from Dallas to San Antonio (early 80s - it was like 40 bucks each round-trip) and then wandered around the Riverwalk area where I pretended to be a British musician and he was my American manager and tried to pick up girls. Problem was that, while I could mimic British things I'd memorized pretty well (I could run through dozens of Monty Python skits) the minute I had to start carrying on a real conversation for more than a sentence or two I just sounded like an idiot. I couldn't translate on the fly and there just aren't that many conversational opportunities to work in buying cheese and complaining about dead parrots that would appeal to a young lady one is trying to woo.

The young ladies of San Antonio remained un-wooed. But all was not lost - we went back to the hotel and smoked a bunch of weed and went and ate some awesome Mexican food and spent every last dime on food and drink and had a great weekend anyway.

Now that I think about it, if we had just told the women we had weed we probably would have done better in the hook-up department.

We forgot to hold back money for a cab ride to the airport but at least we had the forethought to buy round-trip tickets and the hitch-hike to the airport wasn't so bad.