Customer Service in America
Posted by: eolai on March 27th, 2007
Several years ago I was fortunate to be at a small party in a house in Dublin. Or Galway. Or Antrim. Or somewhere where I […]
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All Together Now, Drink. In Sync.
Posted by: eolai on March 14th, 2007
I like groups. At school in Dublin the Brothers took us to see Lord of The Flies to show us that man was not meant […]
I’m Reminded of the British Police by Valentine’s Day in the USA
Posted by: eolai on February 15th, 2007
USA & Ireland Little Difference #20: Valentine’s Day
What’s wrong with America on Valentine’s Day, is what always reminds me of one of so many meetings […]
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USA & Ireland Little Difference #19: Finding Money
Posted by: eolai on February 7th, 2007
Finding Money
You know that old joke? About the Irish man emigrating to America because he hears the streets there are paved with gold, and when […]
Ireland & USA Little Differences #18: End Times
Posted by: eolai on January 30th, 2007
End Times
Fridges all over the middle of America have invitations clamped to them. And I’ll never get used to these invitations to social functions […]
Ireland & USA Little Differences # 17: Going Out The In-Door
Posted by: eolai on January 9th, 2007
A woman gave me her trolley at Aldi today. She wouldn’t take the quarter from me.
It occurred to me that so many people could […]
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USA & Ireland: Little Differences #16 - Lasagna
Posted by: eolai on January 3rd, 2007
A pasta story continues the series of the less celebrated differences between Ireland and the US. It’s one of those tiny things that hits you […]
Milk and Onions: USA & Ireland Little Differences #15
Posted by: eolai on December 29th, 2006
Solving the World’s Problems.
I used to get my hair cut in Ringsend in Dublin. I would walk from where I worked in Ballsbridge, ignoring much […]
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Lights, Cameras…
Posted by: eolai on December 24th, 2006
Lest their be any confusion regarding my posting on the differences experienced on Christmas Eve in Kansas City and in Dublin, I should stress that […]
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Christmas Eve: Dublin & KC
Posted by: eolai on December 24th, 2006
Christmas Eve in Dublin
I would leave most if not all present buying until Christmas Eve and then head into town for the present-buying blitz.
I might […]
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USA & Ireland Little Differences #14: Merry Christmas
Posted by: eolai on December 19th, 2006
NOTE: See Happy New Year in Irish HERE
Merry Christmas
You may think that this is about the little difference between our two nations of ‘Merry Christmas’ […]
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USA & Ireland: Little Difference #13
Posted by: eolai on December 4th, 2006
Fun
Everything is quantifiable in America.
And everything has its place on a chart. You are not just a coach; you are the winningest coach. Or you […]
USA & Ireland: Little Differences #12
Posted by: eolai on December 1st, 2006
Midnight on New Year’s Eve
The only reason New Year’s Eve exists as a day of celebration is because it contains the last moments of the […]
USA & Ireland Little Differences #11
Posted by: eolai on November 27th, 2006
Pharmaceuticals
In northern England I have a friend who went to Grimsby in 1983 where he then contracted a cold he has never been able to […]
Ireland & USA: Little Differences #10
Posted by: eolai on November 22nd, 2006
Turkeyed Out
Okay the Turkey is an American bird, but it was in Europe that it got its name we know it by.
Europeans sailed to […]
Ireland & USA: Little Differences #9
Posted by: eolai on November 20th, 2006
Coin Take Up
The U.S. Mint is trying again. New One Dollar coins are being introduced starting in February 2007.
These new coins will bear the […]
Ireland & USA: Little Differences #8
Posted by: eolai on November 9th, 2006
Temperatures
I’m not referring to Fahrenheit versus Centigrade or Celsius - or as AccuWeather bizarrely calls those options, ‘English’ versus ‘Metric’, presumably on the basis that […]
Ireland & USA Little Differences #7
Posted by: eolai on November 5th, 2006
Irish Fests
There aren’t Irish Fests in Ireland.
Ah you’re just being semantic; it’s like saying we don’t have Irish Stew in Ireland, we just have Stew, […]
They’re On It - But What Does It All Mean?
Posted by: eolai on October 27th, 2006
Forget what Johnson County is sending me, and get a load of what the city of Kansas City - where I actually live - sent […]
From Euros to Dollars: Banking in the MidWest
Posted by: eolai on October 20th, 2006
From Euros to Dollars: Banking in the MidWest
-Hello, xyz-commerical-bank head office. How may I help you?
-Yeah, howaya, I’m an xyz-commerical-bank customer and I just wanted […]
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