Accidentally Dutch

Quote of the Week: Onions

by · August 14, 2007

Quote

The following takes place between the hours of 10:56pm and 10:58pm while walking through Amsterdam’s flower market with a friend visiting from England:

Friend
(Commenting on one of the flower stands)
“Wow. That is a lot of onions.”

Pause

Me
(With one eyebrow raised)
“You do realize those are tulip bulbs and not onions… right?”

Friend
(Looking embarrassed)
“Oh…”

Me
(Trying not to laugh)
“You do know we are in the flower market… right?”

Friend
(Looking more embarrassed)
“Yeah.”

I’ve been taking the mickey out of him about it ever since.

Stuart

Stuart is an accident prone Englishman who has been living in the Netherlands since 2001. Even his move to the country was an unintentional accident, the result of replying to a cryptic job advertisement he found one day in a local British magazine. Since then he has learned to love the Dutch (so much so that he married one of them) and now calls the country home. He started the blog Invading Holland in 2006 as a place to share his strange stories of language misunderstandings, cultural confusions and his own accident prone nature.

16 Responses

  1. Rose DesRochers says:
    September 5, 2007 at 12:23 am

    By any chance is he blond? :)

    Reply

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