Originally Posted by exbayern
(Actually, it isn't the accent in your area which stymies me the most; I've had to admit defeat a few times in rural Florida and Alabama in the past)
Hmpf!
...Okay, yeah, in all honesty? Those deep-rural Alabama accents get me from time to time, too. They're gone now - one retired, one resigned and moved on to become a professional photographer - but there were two in Huntsville that had really, really,
really bad accents. The second one was getting ready to hand-wand a fellow and went through the whole spiel to him. When he was done, the passenger looked around and announced, quite loudly, if he could get someone in there who spoke English.
Our supervisor lost it, she was laughing so hard.