Annoying German Shouts Into Cell Phone

So I was riding the bus downtown earlier today, and a couple of German dudes were sitting behind me. The louder one kept answering his cell phone, into which he would shout a series of unintelligible phrases and then hang up. And then it would ring again, and he would answer it, and shout some more, etc etc. How irritating!!!

The interesting thing was that every so often, he would interject the (English) phrase “Fish and chips”. So it would go like this: “Muchen daten delfta aften FISH AND CHIPS buchen zalza ahm!!”

I was SO confused.

AND seriously annoyed and hoping he wasn’t spitting in my hair or anything like that. There were a lot of phlemmy, hacking-type syllables being thrown around back there. And me without any headwear!

Anyhoo, I was under the impression that it was primarily idiot Americans doing that sort of thing, but I was wrong. Even worse, as I couldn’t understand what he was yelling about, I didn’t see how the fried seafood reference fit in at all with whatever else he was worked up over.

Also, why wouldn’t he just use the German word for it? Why shout everything in German but that???

"FISH AND CHIPS!!!! FISH AND CHIPS!!!!!!!!!!!"

Gah!

Man oh man these blog entries are getting worse and worse, aren’t they? I need some new material…..