My first real job: a survey at the airport

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You’d think there’s nothing worse than interviewing old ladies (or old gentlemen), but I must respectfully disagree. I’m sorry.

Old men might all love to complain and say things like:

- tourist. I’m too poor to afford a first class ticket.

- Oh, you see, I wanted to see my family, I’m so old, this will probably be the last time I travel.

- I’m really old. How old would you say I am? Take a guess.

But all in all, they are willing to help and are nice enough. Now, American 30-year-olds wearing a suit are less trustworthy, and i don’t think I’ll ever choose a French hippy guy to help with a survey, either. Because

a) American guy:

-flirted with me (stop looking at me like that and don’t smile in that “huh, cool” way. You moron)

-would give me an answer, then change his mind when I had already written it down

-claimed to speak Spanish but kept replying in English (very confusing) to my questions in Spanish.

-wouldn’t tell me his age (he said “16″ and laughed).

b) Hippie French Guy

-pretended not to speak English when he clearly did

-took the french questionnaire away from me to fill it in himself

-kept making crosses instead of circles even after I told him he was mean to draw a freaking circle.

-took ages to fill it in just to annoy me.

-made up all the answers (said he lived in some African country, then wrote he had flown in from France), including the name of the city where he lived (he just kind of put random letters one after another until he thought it looked like an African name).

-he was smoking and blowing the disgusting smoke right on my face.

My conclusion after a whole day at the airport is,

1. Scottish, Canadian, Portuguese and normal french people were very nice, really thoughtful and considerate.

2. The Spanish were usually nice and very friendly, except for some people in their forties, who said they didn’t want to answer any questions because they just… didn’t want to do it (and they looked very bored waiting for their boarding time).

3. Also, some men and one woman from regions in Spain where there is a great number of separatists tend to pull up a face when I ask what their nationality is (I’m sorry, it’s not my fault if you can’t say “My nationality is basque/ My nationality is Catalonian”. I’m not the one who drew the borders and I’m not the person who came up with the questions, either, so just answer the damn question please?).

4. Chinese people need to learn a foreign language… or perhaps I need to learn Chinese…

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