NO MORE CURRY! by Jill Dobbe

It is a great pleasure to welcome back Jill Dobbe with her second entry in the 2016 Travel Highlights Competition. 

Don't forget that the competition ends at midnight (UK) on Monday November 14th. 

NO MORE CURRY!
 
After a month of eating only spicy Indian food, I couldn’t take it any longer. What I craved more than anything was just a normal cheese pizza. Overjoyed to find Dominos Pizza in Gurgaon, India, I picked up the phone and called in my order.

Dominos: “HellowelcometoDominoswillyoubewantingapizzatoday?” (Spoken with a very rapid and lilting Indian accent.)

Me:  “Yes  I  would   like   to  order   a  large   margherita    pizza.”

Dominos:  “Didyousayamediumspicydelightpizza,Madam?”

Me:  “NO!      I     said     a     large     MARGHERITA    pizza!”

Dominos:“Okay,Madam,thatwouldbeamediumpeppypaneerpizzawouldyoualsolike
​breadsticksordrinkswithyourorder?”

Me:  “Okay,       yes,      whatever!”

Dominos: “Wewillbeseeingyouinthirtyminuteswithyoursmallspicydelightpizzaand thecostwillbe*!@# (unintelligible) rupeesthankyouforcallingDominos,Madam.”

​I hung up ten minutes later completely baffled.
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​Jill is an international educator and published author who writes about her experiences living and working in schools and countries around the world. The interesting sites she has seen and the unique places she lived prompted her to begin writing. 

Originally from Wisconsin, USA, she currently lives in her seventh country, Honduras, with her husband, Dan, and her Yorkie-Poo, Mickey. While working as an elementary principal, Jill travels, shops for cultural artifacts, works at scrapbooking, reads obsessively, photographs the beautiful people and countries of Latin America, and muddles her way through the Spanish language.
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Jill loves her life as an international educator, and on the days when there is ample electricity and water, she feels like she is living the dream.
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