I come from a land down under
The family and some friends went to The Outback Steakhouse a bit back. Junior and her friend both had to go to the bathroom. And then my son did too. So I head to the restroom area with the kids and, of course, the girls beat me there. I arrive to find them staring at the two bathrooms. See, at Outback, the restrooms are not labeled men and women as the girls are accustomed to reading. They are labeled Blokes and Sheilas and the girls had no idea what that meant. I point them in the right direction and Junior’s friend looks at me and says Is that Spanish?
Heh.
November 11th, 2010 at 11:34 am
“…where women glow and men chunder.”
November 11th, 2010 at 12:05 pm
Shoulda called them all Bruce, just to avoid confusion.
November 11th, 2010 at 1:33 pm
Have they changed their policy, and now allow firearms there?
November 11th, 2010 at 2:03 pm
The real question is which way the toilets flushed down there: clockwise or counterclockwise?
November 11th, 2010 at 2:15 pm
You’re a racist.
November 11th, 2010 at 3:39 pm
…go to the Outback steakhouse here, armed, all the time… never saw a sign that said I couldn’t…
November 11th, 2010 at 3:53 pm
Better then “buoys” and “gulls”.
November 11th, 2010 at 4:10 pm
Bouys and gulls? That is a new one on me. I have to say the first time I was at an Outback it took me a minute to decode the signs.
Asking as to the source, that is cute.
November 11th, 2010 at 6:08 pm
Doesn’t Jr know that the world is his bathroom?
November 11th, 2010 at 6:59 pm
>Bouys and gulls? That is a new one on me….
>Asking as to the source, that is cute.
Chesapeake Bay Seafood House, a local chain that I think is extinct around here. Maybe others too.
Oddly enough, they had a Maine lobster motif inside.
November 11th, 2010 at 11:39 pm
I’m gonna have that song stuck in my head all day.
November 12th, 2010 at 12:01 am
I’m worried that your boy’s young friend thought it was Spanish. I thought the South was holding the line against the BiLingual P.C. Insanity.
November 12th, 2010 at 1:56 am
Um, Chris, and others? Junior is a girl.
November 12th, 2010 at 8:58 am
About 50 years ago, on a family road trip through Colorado, we stopped at a little diner for dinner. I will always remember my youngest sister running down the hall to the girls’ room, only to run back to the table with a desperate look on her face, doing the potty dance,
“Hurry, am I a buck or a doe?”
November 12th, 2010 at 9:01 am
Bubblehead Les:
Since Junior’s friend didn’t recognise that Australian slang words were NOT Spanish, I’d say they are holding the line just fine.
Of course, those terms are never actually USED in Oz, at least not in any place that I’ve been.
November 12th, 2010 at 9:41 am
The Outback nearest me is most definitely posted “no firearms,” at least the last time I went there.
November 12th, 2010 at 10:30 am
Wolfwood: neither, they flush straight down, and most of them with a great deal of force. I haven’t paid attention to sinks to see if they rotate.
Sendarius: I’ve heard both terms used, tho’ Sheila more than Bloke. The thing I’ve never seen is an Aussie drink Fosters.
Outback used to have guys walking around, probably theatre students, with fake Aussie accents, chatting up customers. We took a real Aussie in, good fun mate!
November 12th, 2010 at 6:19 pm
Junior must get a lot of static at school for being named “Uncle”. On the other paw, it’s no worse than many of the monikers parents hang on innocent little kids nowadays.
November 12th, 2010 at 8:29 pm
Larry Weeks:
Sorry, I wasn’t clear.
As you say, the terms ARE used in conversation (although less and less these days), but I have never seen them on the bathroom/toilet doors of any publicly accessible establishment – not even the jokey ones.
Oh, and NOBODY drinks Fosters in Oz. It’s basically swill, which is why we export it all.