Tuesday 9 February 2010

A Brazil story

Recently I was in Brazil to help give a training course. Everyone on the training course spoke English to a varying degree.

As we were walking along the beach road between a restaurant and our hotel I asked one of the men;

"How long do you work each day?"

He replied; "3 years"

But he realised that there was something wrong with this answer in context to the question so he asked me to 're-phrase the question'.

I said; "How many hours do you work for each day?"

He replied; "3 years, yes"

I was happy with that.