I experienced another Great British Moment the other day. I went into a cafe and ordered a cappuchino, take away, one sugar. I was watching her make it and saw that she didn’t put the sugar in it. She then put the lid on it and gave it to me. I asked her did she put sugar in my coffee and her response was, “We don’t do that”. I’m not sure what it is about the lack of service here in London. I mean how hard is it to put one sugar in a cappuchino?
Another thing happen when I went to Waterloo to order breakfast in a box. I ask for my roll to be cut in half and the girl behind the counter did just that, cut my roll in half across the top rather than through the middle so that I can actually put the sausage in between. Sometimes I feel like I’m an alien and that what I feel to be a simple request is something so foreign and difficult for brits to take.
