In 1988 we had our 1st German Exchange Student, Charlotte “Tina” Jordan. She was a hoot. We loved her dearly, but have unfortunately lost contact with her over the years. About a week before she left the States, I acquired my 1st job, working at Shakeys.
There are a few things that tend to happen with exchange students. For example, most Japanese girls will, almost immediately, paint their fingernails, pierce their ears, and perm their hair. Another commonality is that as they are preparing to return home, their accents start to thicken and their English skills regress a little. It makes sense; they know they will need to be reassimilating to life back at home.
I put on my uniform which consisted of black pants (jeans) and a light
It doesn’t. Tina laughs and says in her fake falsetto trilly voice “No! I said nice BOOB EMBLEM” She liked the tacky logo that appeared on my boob.
What makes this even funnier is that I was relaying this very story to my dear friend who was married to a German and she apparently wasn’t paying attention to the story because she went home and tried to sound impressive by using “booben-emblem” in place of the word “shirt” and didn’t understand why he didn’t understand what she was saying. Good times. Maybe you had to be there.
On a similar note, I tried to look for a picture of the ugly tannish/brown shirts, but when I put id Shakey’s uniform in Google images, this came up:
yeah…that wasn’t what we had to wear. Can tell they don’t really work there…they’d have fryer burns all over those exposed bellies!
Sadly, I would have looked descent in this back then, but didn’t have the self confidence to see it. Oh to be young again…
The tilted kilt girls. Nice.
ReplyDeleteDang....those uniforms would have soooo helped our social lives back then!! The tan top and the brown baseball hat that even our bangs had to be tucked up in were brutal!!! I will never forget when I came in on a day off and Officer Bob had to do a double take and said " Niki, I didn't recognize you with your clothes on". Meaning, I think, that those uniforms were so ugly, we looked like different people when we weren't working. Although, he might have been able to utter the same phrase if we had worn the bra/skirt combo in the picture...but for different reasons..rest in peace Officer Bob!!!
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