different world

[ciroccoj]

At breakfast at the hotel today, I get up from our table at the same time as the woman sitting at the table next to us. On the way to the buffet, I hear a couple of the employees talking in the kitchen area. I poke my head in and say, in Spanish, "I think you're out of orange juice." They nod and one of them heads to the back of the kitchen, presumably to get more juice.

"Is that all the bagels you have?" asks the woman who was sitting next to us, slightly annoyed tone and look on her face.

I look at her, a little confused, and say something clever like, "Huh?"

"The bagels," she points at the bagel bin, then sort of stops herself and looks at me more closely. "Oh - you don't work here, do you?"

"Um, no, I don't."

"Oh, I'm sorry. Um, sorry, sorry about that..." and she walks off, looking a little embarrassed, "Don't know why I thought you did..."

Um... I think I do ;)