Cock, Yes I Said Cock.

There are some words in American English that just sound..well they sound bad in British English. Today I had one of those moments. I was riding along with one of our sales guys to an account called B&Q, its very similar to a Home Depot. A female customer walked up to me and asked where she could get hardieplank, lavender blue color. I explained to her kindly how she could order it, and to make sure she had all of her accessories I asked her, "Do you need Caulk?" BZZZZZZ. PAUSE. It was like the music had stopped playing and everybody was looking at me. Caulk sounds like Cock in British English, and I asked this poor lady if she needed Cock!!!! OMG. I like to try and add pictures for everything I talk about. I think for this short story a picture of silicon "Caulk" is most appropriate.

I forgot to mention, in London we took a bicycle taxi, the same thing you see in wrigleyville and other neighborhoods. We thought it would be a good way to see the city. We asked the driver to take us to coventry garden where there were many restaurants. He drove us around for 10 minutes or so, dropped us off and charged us $18 dollars. Not bad for a nice 10 minute ride...until 2 blocks later as we started walking and we were right back to the same place he picked us up. That guy was such a "Caulk".

As I left London today, my co-worker didn't want to drive me all the way to London City Airport (not a caulk,traffic wasreally bad.) He sent me on the "tube" and I arrived within 45 minutes. It really wasn't bad except for the 3 flights of stairs I had to take with a suitcase in hand. You can really travel around anywhere in the london area by "tube", it's a much faster and better system than CTA train systems in Chicago. Now i'm back in Amsterdam until Monday, when I head back to the UK. Stay tuned...