More accents (was successful session, accented English)

[dracos_boyfriend]

::feels guilty at Tab's wonderful posts::

I can never come up with anything half as good.  Got some accent-y 
stories to share however.  I was taken for an American once in 
Germany when I was 12, but I can't remember the circumstances in 
which it occurred.  What I do remember is my exchange partner's 
father driving us into central Stuttgart on the Autobahn - it was 
pouring with rain, and he kept pointing at the sky, grinning at me 
and saying 'London wetter, ja?'

At a bookstore in an outlet mall in Massachusetts someone asked me if 
I was Irish ... and I sound about as un-Irish as you can get.  In the 
same mall, the lovely woman who was serving my parents (who were, as 
Brits tend to do when they get unleashed on malls in the US, buying 
armloads of clothes to take home with us), was talking to them about 
how much she adored British exercise videos.  Apparently our accents 
are authoritative and good to work out to.  In Canada, I was again 
asked where I was from by some very old guy who was sitting near us 
on the bus to Niagara, and on telling him, he 
exclaimed 'England???!!!' as if he had never even encountered the 
word before.

I can't think of anything else
Alex