I am headcanoning this upon my reality.
So you know our creepy uncle who runs a corner store? Has he met a customer for you!
We need more people like this on the planet.
I mean the thing that’s stopping us most at this point is the fear of getting accused of sexual harassment for wanting to put women (assuming OP is a woman) into relationships.
Tall attractive lesbians?
Imaginary?
despite the anecdotal nature of this medium. good people exist in the world, go outside and meet them
Nothing never happens does it.
I don’t know why, but when I read this in my head, he has an accent.
an indian accent, in my mind.
It was the quick shift to “very handsome” without a pronoun modifier.
Linguistics ftw!
I imagine him Persian or Arab, because in my limited experience they have been the most charismatic shopkeepers.
For some reason I imagined him with like… A Bosnian or Hungarian accent or something
Everyone has an accent!
Yeah, are they just trying to say foreign?
Not necessarily. People who say “he has an accent” just think that their accent is “not an accent” so it could also be a (different) regional accent.
Having an accent is code for immigrant. If someone from alabama goes to new york, they are never described as “having an accent”.
Can’t speak to your specific example but I have 100% heard people say “had an accent” to mean “has a regional accent”, that would include, for example, an Appalachian accent.
We’re used to a lot of owners and managers of convenience stores (I think this includes corner stores?) and gas stations being naturalized citizens and foreign nationals. Idk how that got started or how widespread it is, how much of it is a true demographic vs confirmation bias of what we see portrayed in entertainment and media—but either way there is a clear concept of people in that line of work, true or not.
Of course I say this as an American assuming every random stranger on the internet I see commenting on a post I’m reading to be an American as well, so I’m not entirely sure if this idea holds up in other countries as well.
If it is true I’d be curious to know the reason why the demographic exists, specifically what it is that attracts non-native citizens
Part of this is because for someone in the process of obtaining citizenship in the US it’s actually much easier to legally start a business than it is to legally get a job. And with the decade or so that it can take to become a fully naturalized citizen in the US, folks have to make ends meet somehow so they’ll naturally start a business since that’s the one way they can legally make money until they get a work permit.
This is part of why there’s such a thriving restaurant scene for foreign foods across the entire US, a family will come and pool their time and money to open a small restaurant, and that will be how they survive until everyone gets work permits and eventually naturalized. There’s even a sub-industry of immigrants teaching other immigrants how to start a successful restaurant and what recipes work well for the American pallete. This is where some of the staples of Americanized Mexican and Chinese menus come from for example.
In my city, the overwhelming majority of convenience store owners are Chinese.
I should ask the ones near my house how they started.
Do Americans say “corner shop”? Corner shops are usually UK thing because they are shops that are on the corners of residential streets, hence the name. When the houses were built it was thought that people would need access to convenient shops so they built the street with a shop on it.
Sure. In the bigger cities sometimes. More often we’ll say convenience stores, bodegas or just use the chain store name like 7-11. But corner store gets used often enough even if the stores aren’t actually on corners
They do to some extent
The shop owner, in the village I moved to, has this awful accent. Something about baguettes and croissants. Indiciferable as a someone from the Netherlands.
Haha same
Not sure about these days - other than 7-11 the typical “corner store” seems to be getting increasingly rare - but when I was younger most were generally run by people that I assume were immigrants due to having some accent or other.
Same here… But in my defense the guy that runs the corner store near me has one, and Apu from Simpsons comes to mind too (the two have completely different accect btw
An accent of ? Read it out loud to us
I didn’t say that. I take credit for shit, but I can’t steal from a shit bot
I made so fart jokes based on wtf
What a king
He smokes hookah… the good and kind hookah
The man’s name? Albert Einstein.
I mean want it to be real but every time I see posts like this I have that same thought
Explain the joke, please.
Nothing ever happens, everything is made up
Implying that it didn’t happen.
