>>Just like we have to beware of going into a tobacconist over there and ordering a "packet of fags" :-)
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>A friend of mine recounts falling into this one. Driving into Manhattan from Kennedy on his first trip to the States he leaned forwards and asked the limo driver if you would "mind terribly pulling over somewhere where I can pick up some fags"
So he took him straight to Greenwich Village? :-)
I know a guy who went into a tobacconist in USA and asked for 20 B & H. He was handed 20 packs (2 cartons?)
I should point out to any US readers that 20 cigs in UK means "a pack of 20 (individual) cigs"
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
