hello everyone and welcome back to
english with lucy I’ve got a really fun
lesson for you today it is a storytime
now ages ago ages ago I made – story
time videos about funny things that
happened to me
whilst I was teaching and I always get
loads and loads of comments from you
saying please do another storytime and I
couldn’t really think of anything really
funny to tell you until I went out for
dinner with a friend and I was telling
them about my first job and I realized
that I have a lot of funny stories to
tell you so today I’m going to be
telling you about my first ever job so
today I’m going to be telling you about
my first ever job that I started when I
was 14 15 and before supid embarrassing
and funny mistakes that I made whilst
doing that job now the ultimate goal of
this lesson is hopefully to make you
laugh but it’s also going to be to help
you improve your listening and your
pronunciation so I have lovingly written
subtitles for you but I want you to try
listening to this once with no subtitles
and once again with subtitles because
then you can see how much you managed to
pick up and the second time you watch it
you can look at the words and associate
the spelling with my pronunciation
remember if you really want to take your
listening to the next level don’t forget
to sign up for your free trial at
audible.com you can get a free audio
book listening is the one thing that you
can practice while multitasking so you
can listen to an audiobook and practice
your listening whilst you’re doing
something else like driving to work
cooking or whatever you fancy right
let’s get started with the embarrassing
stories right now I’ve said it many
times before I come from a tiny tiny
village
in the county of Bedfordshire and there
weren’t I mean my village it doesn’t
have a bank or an ATM it doesn’t have a
shop it doesn’t have anything apart from
a pub and an outdoor swimming pool and
when I was about 14 15 I was desperate
to get a job I was desperate
I didn’t even have anything to spend the
money on I just wanted something to do
and I wanted to have some work
experience for me when I was young there
the idea of having a job and working
sounded really cool and grown-up so
that’s what I wanted to do and the pub
in the village had some new management
and I thought the management was really
really nice so I went over there for a
meal with my parents and I just asked
are you looking for any staff and the
manager replied that they were and the
manager offered me a chance to come in
next weekend do a test shift and then
potentially work for them so I did that
and I started working for them and I was
so happy and I was so eager to please I
wanted to do the job perfectly however I
have always been a little bit I think
the word the correct word is ditzy ditzy
the definition of ditzy is a bit silly
or a bit scatterbrained doesn’t really
think things through properly or
logically definitely when I was younger
it was very Dipsy I have my moments now
but but I’m a lot better and but
obviously this was my first job so I
made some mistakes
I actually made for funny mistakes among
many other non funny mistakes but don’t
worry I didn’t get fired this was over a
period of four years over three years I
worked for them for three years
every Saturday lunch time and the first
mistake that I made was to do with the
soup of the day so the pub owners were
the female manager and the male he was
also the manager but this head chest and
he used to write out the menu board on a
big chalkboard and he used to write in
schooling beautiful beautiful writing
very elaborate writing all of these
specials and you
to show the guests the special board and
read it out to them now the the soup of
the day was a boy cabbage soup a savoy
cabbage soup however I read it as a
sandy cabbage soup so I went round
telling all of the guests hello yes our
soup of the day is a sandy cabbage soup
and I remember them all so sandy cabbage
how can it be
sandy cabbage and I was like look our
chef is very experimental but I assure
you it will be delicious
well nobody ordered the sandy cabbage
soup and at the end of the test this
just said to me Lucy no one’s ordered
the soup I’ve got like a whole pan of
supid what happened
smell that well it was a bit of a
strange name I personally wouldn’t order
that like what savoy cabbage soup I just
thought oh my god and in the end I did
admit to him and say I’m so sorry I got
it wrong I thought it was sandy cabbage
I was imagining this soup with like
gritty bits of sand in it I don’t know
but no one ordered it and I was in a
little bit of trouble but luckily they
were very nice to make so I was still
quite new so that was the fourth most
embarrassing moment I wasn’t too bad
the third most embarrassing moment was
the Welsh rarebit now a Welsh rarebit is
a quite traditional
it’s a traditional dish it’s basically
cheese on toast Welsh rarebit now that
day we didn’t have the specials board so
the manager said to me Lucy today we’ve
got Welsh rarebit and so I thought she
was just pronouncing it a little bit
posh so I went and told everyone yes
today for only 595 we have well rub it
the loads of people started ordering
rabbit for 595 I was like yes it is an
amazing deal and they’re like yes give
me the rabbit
yeah well rub it yes seven Welsh rabbit
please I won’t
back in and I was like guys amazing deal
everyone wants the Welsh rabbit and they
were like what forget everybody wants
the Welsh rabbit and they said to me
Lucy it’s not rabbit it’s rare bit so I
had to go out and tell everyone
guys I’ve made a mistake it’s not rabbit
is actually cheese on toast so that just
shows even native English speakers
struggle with British English
pronunciation rabbit a little bit I mean
that’s saying almost okay the second
most embarrassing moment was oh god this
was really really bad there was a really
quite old woman she must have been 80
with what I guess was her daughter who
was about 60 and they were having a
lovely quiet meal and when it got to the
end of the meal the old lady went to the
toilet and so the younger of the two
signaled to me and says obviously saying
can I have the bill she wanted to pay it
quickly whilst the mother is in the
toilet I guess as a surprise and I said
so I went back and I brought her a glass
of milk yes
oops women have said can I have the bill
and I had read from her lips can I have
a milk can I have a bill can I have a
milk in like the same so I made it
really really special for her in a
little tube glass with filled with milk
I put a straw in I thought how lovely
this woman obviously wants to look after
her mum’s bones make sure she’s got lots
of calcium so I put it on the table they
were both sat there and I watched them
just sit look at it for ages like did
you order me and then they called me
over and said sorry and we all just bill
and you gave us milk oh my god so very
soon yes so in the end I I was I just
couldn’t apologize enough oh my god I’m
so
sorry I read it read the the milk you
know I totally misunderstood I’m reading
history and I remember them just looking
at me like poor girls he is so stupid
and the final most embarrassing
waitressing moment was the time the time
that we ran out of ice cream I remember
it was a very stressful day there were
loads of guests the restaurant was
absolutely full so it was quite high
tension the chef was a little bit
stressed and they were the huge table
there are about seven children there
seven children seven adults there were a
lot of people on this one table and the
children all had the children’s menu
which came with a free scoop of ice
cream at the end and you could have
strawberry chocolate or vanilla and so
at the end of their meal I said right
guys
you get free ice cream which flavor
would you like and then like all vanilla
chocolate strawberry so I took that
order I went to the to the chef and I
said right we need two Vanilla’s three
chocolates and two strawberries and he
said didn’t you hear we don’t have any
ice cream left
why did you offer it and I said oh my
god what are we going to give them then
and he said he was getting really
annoyed with me at this point he said s
all which means absolutely nothing
I heard ruffled by said oh really
okay then walked out and told this table
of 14 people and said right guys no ice
cream that the chef has just informed me
that we have waffles and all the
children were like yeah they were so
excited and the parents also wanted
waffles so in the end I went back to the
chef I was like great we’ve saved the
day we want four feed waffles please and
he just looked means like grateful who
are you talking about I said suckled and
I was like and I just thought oh my god
I have messed it up again twice twice is
how and in the end we had to find them
yet another
desert option and needless to say the
chef wasn’t that happy with me
however we made up in the end and now my
brother works there and I think he does
a much better job so yeah those are my
four most embarrassing moments whilst
working as a waitress and I would love
to know if you have ever had an
embarrassing moment at work the kind of
thing that’s so awful in the moment but
then afterwards it’s just another
anecdote you can just talk about it so I
would love to hear that don’t forget to
put it in the comments if you liked this
story time and you want to see some more
of my story times I have a story time in
Spanish so if you click up here you can
find out why I was saying bevel actually
sir for two years and what I was trying
to say and also it’s a nice opportunity
to hear me speaking in another language
because all day I go on at you about
improving your second language why not
hear me speak in mine and then I also
have some more in English I tell you
about the time that a very lovely
student asked me if I wanted penis so
you can click up there as well and
there’s also another one about the time
that a lovely student made a terrible
mistake
whilst talking about his mother in a
conversation class so those are the
three story times that I have as well
don’t forget to sign up for the free
trial at audible.com the link is in the
description box and don’t forget to
connect with me on all of my social
media I have my Facebook and my
Instagram and I will see you soon for
another lesson
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english with lucy I’ve got a really fun
lesson for you today it is a storytime
now ages ago ages ago I made – story
time videos about funny things that
happened to me
whilst I was teaching and I always get
loads and loads of comments from you
saying please do another storytime and I
couldn’t really think of anything really
funny to tell you until I went out for
dinner with a friend and I was telling
them about my first job and I realized
that I have a lot of funny stories to
tell you so today I’m going to be
telling you about my first ever job so
today I’m going to be telling you about
my first ever job that I started when I
was 14 15 and before supid embarrassing
and funny mistakes that I made whilst
doing that job now the ultimate goal of
this lesson is hopefully to make you
laugh but it’s also going to be to help
you improve your listening and your
pronunciation so I have lovingly written
subtitles for you but I want you to try
listening to this once with no subtitles
and once again with subtitles because
then you can see how much you managed to
pick up and the second time you watch it
you can look at the words and associate
the spelling with my pronunciation
remember if you really want to take your
listening to the next level don’t forget
to sign up for your free trial at
audible.com you can get a free audio
book listening is the one thing that you
can practice while multitasking so you
can listen to an audiobook and practice
your listening whilst you’re doing
something else like driving to work
cooking or whatever you fancy right
let’s get started with the embarrassing
stories right now I’ve said it many
times before I come from a tiny tiny
village
in the county of Bedfordshire and there
weren’t I mean my village it doesn’t
have a bank or an ATM it doesn’t have a
shop it doesn’t have anything apart from
a pub and an outdoor swimming pool and
when I was about 14 15 I was desperate
to get a job I was desperate
I didn’t even have anything to spend the
money on I just wanted something to do
and I wanted to have some work
experience for me when I was young there
the idea of having a job and working
sounded really cool and grown-up so
that’s what I wanted to do and the pub
in the village had some new management
and I thought the management was really
really nice so I went over there for a
meal with my parents and I just asked
are you looking for any staff and the
manager replied that they were and the
manager offered me a chance to come in
next weekend do a test shift and then
potentially work for them so I did that
and I started working for them and I was
so happy and I was so eager to please I
wanted to do the job perfectly however I
have always been a little bit I think
the word the correct word is ditzy ditzy
the definition of ditzy is a bit silly
or a bit scatterbrained doesn’t really
think things through properly or
logically definitely when I was younger
it was very Dipsy I have my moments now
but but I’m a lot better and but
obviously this was my first job so I
made some mistakes
I actually made for funny mistakes among
many other non funny mistakes but don’t
worry I didn’t get fired this was over a
period of four years over three years I
worked for them for three years
every Saturday lunch time and the first
mistake that I made was to do with the
soup of the day so the pub owners were
the female manager and the male he was
also the manager but this head chest and
he used to write out the menu board on a
big chalkboard and he used to write in
schooling beautiful beautiful writing
very elaborate writing all of these
specials and you
to show the guests the special board and
read it out to them now the the soup of
the day was a boy cabbage soup a savoy
cabbage soup however I read it as a
sandy cabbage soup so I went round
telling all of the guests hello yes our
soup of the day is a sandy cabbage soup
and I remember them all so sandy cabbage
how can it be
sandy cabbage and I was like look our
chef is very experimental but I assure
you it will be delicious
well nobody ordered the sandy cabbage
soup and at the end of the test this
just said to me Lucy no one’s ordered
the soup I’ve got like a whole pan of
supid what happened
smell that well it was a bit of a
strange name I personally wouldn’t order
that like what savoy cabbage soup I just
thought oh my god and in the end I did
admit to him and say I’m so sorry I got
it wrong I thought it was sandy cabbage
I was imagining this soup with like
gritty bits of sand in it I don’t know
but no one ordered it and I was in a
little bit of trouble but luckily they
were very nice to make so I was still
quite new so that was the fourth most
embarrassing moment I wasn’t too bad
the third most embarrassing moment was
the Welsh rarebit now a Welsh rarebit is
a quite traditional
it’s a traditional dish it’s basically
cheese on toast Welsh rarebit now that
day we didn’t have the specials board so
the manager said to me Lucy today we’ve
got Welsh rarebit and so I thought she
was just pronouncing it a little bit
posh so I went and told everyone yes
today for only 595 we have well rub it
the loads of people started ordering
rabbit for 595 I was like yes it is an
amazing deal and they’re like yes give
me the rabbit
yeah well rub it yes seven Welsh rabbit
please I won’t
back in and I was like guys amazing deal
everyone wants the Welsh rabbit and they
were like what forget everybody wants
the Welsh rabbit and they said to me
Lucy it’s not rabbit it’s rare bit so I
had to go out and tell everyone
guys I’ve made a mistake it’s not rabbit
is actually cheese on toast so that just
shows even native English speakers
struggle with British English
pronunciation rabbit a little bit I mean
that’s saying almost okay the second
most embarrassing moment was oh god this
was really really bad there was a really
quite old woman she must have been 80
with what I guess was her daughter who
was about 60 and they were having a
lovely quiet meal and when it got to the
end of the meal the old lady went to the
toilet and so the younger of the two
signaled to me and says obviously saying
can I have the bill she wanted to pay it
quickly whilst the mother is in the
toilet I guess as a surprise and I said
so I went back and I brought her a glass
of milk yes
oops women have said can I have the bill
and I had read from her lips can I have
a milk can I have a bill can I have a
milk in like the same so I made it
really really special for her in a
little tube glass with filled with milk
I put a straw in I thought how lovely
this woman obviously wants to look after
her mum’s bones make sure she’s got lots
of calcium so I put it on the table they
were both sat there and I watched them
just sit look at it for ages like did
you order me and then they called me
over and said sorry and we all just bill
and you gave us milk oh my god so very
soon yes so in the end I I was I just
couldn’t apologize enough oh my god I’m
so
sorry I read it read the the milk you
know I totally misunderstood I’m reading
history and I remember them just looking
at me like poor girls he is so stupid
and the final most embarrassing
waitressing moment was the time the time
that we ran out of ice cream I remember
it was a very stressful day there were
loads of guests the restaurant was
absolutely full so it was quite high
tension the chef was a little bit
stressed and they were the huge table
there are about seven children there
seven children seven adults there were a
lot of people on this one table and the
children all had the children’s menu
which came with a free scoop of ice
cream at the end and you could have
strawberry chocolate or vanilla and so
at the end of their meal I said right
guys
you get free ice cream which flavor
would you like and then like all vanilla
chocolate strawberry so I took that
order I went to the to the chef and I
said right we need two Vanilla’s three
chocolates and two strawberries and he
said didn’t you hear we don’t have any
ice cream left
why did you offer it and I said oh my
god what are we going to give them then
and he said he was getting really
annoyed with me at this point he said s
all which means absolutely nothing
I heard ruffled by said oh really
okay then walked out and told this table
of 14 people and said right guys no ice
cream that the chef has just informed me
that we have waffles and all the
children were like yeah they were so
excited and the parents also wanted
waffles so in the end I went back to the
chef I was like great we’ve saved the
day we want four feed waffles please and
he just looked means like grateful who
are you talking about I said suckled and
I was like and I just thought oh my god
I have messed it up again twice twice is
how and in the end we had to find them
yet another
desert option and needless to say the
chef wasn’t that happy with me
however we made up in the end and now my
brother works there and I think he does
a much better job so yeah those are my
four most embarrassing moments whilst
working as a waitress and I would love
to know if you have ever had an
embarrassing moment at work the kind of
thing that’s so awful in the moment but
then afterwards it’s just another
anecdote you can just talk about it so I
would love to hear that don’t forget to
put it in the comments if you liked this
story time and you want to see some more
of my story times I have a story time in
Spanish so if you click up here you can
find out why I was saying bevel actually
sir for two years and what I was trying
to say and also it’s a nice opportunity
to hear me speaking in another language
because all day I go on at you about
improving your second language why not
hear me speak in mine and then I also
have some more in English I tell you
about the time that a very lovely
student asked me if I wanted penis so
you can click up there as well and
there’s also another one about the time
that a lovely student made a terrible
mistake
whilst talking about his mother in a
conversation class so those are the
three story times that I have as well
don’t forget to sign up for the free
trial at audible.com the link is in the
description box and don’t forget to
connect with me on all of my social
media I have my Facebook and my
Instagram and I will see you soon for
another lesson
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