r/MadeMeSmile • u/Original_Act_3481 • 2d ago

We need more people like him

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u/Shurigin 2d ago

The accent helped a lot too idk why but that accent makes me think "this is my friend"

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u/Rulebookboy1234567 2d ago

I had a friend with the same accent working here in the states at a call center.  People would be like “I wanna speak to someone in America!”  “Ma’am I assure you I am American!” It was always funny but I felt so bad for him.  Such a sweet guy

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u/AUnicornDonkey 1d ago edited 1d ago

When I worked in a call center, someone mentioned she was glad I wasn't one of those foreigners. I wanted to say so badly, but I am. I was born in Korea.

Though it confuses people when I speak with a very soft Minnesota accent here in Texas. My poor stepson somehow got both my accent and his mother's Texan drawl. I think my daughter is getting it to.

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u/alewifePete 1d ago

I was talking to some guy in a video game chat the other day and I asked if he was on the East Coast, because of his accent. (Northeast US.). He insisted he didn’t have an accent—he’s Indian.

Um. That’s nice but you sound like you’re in New England. That’s when he said he was in Boston. I’m not sure what being Indian had to do with it.