Boring lunch
While at a restaurant during a year out in St Petersburg, a friend tried to chat up the waitress at the end of a meal by saying ochen' skuchno. The waitress looked very puzzled, shook her head and went off. Unfortunately my friend got something mixed up and said 'very boring' instead of ochen' vkusno, meaning 'very delicious'!Needless to say, he didn't ask for her phone number.
Sent by: Chris
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It's amazing, but exactly the same happened to me and two fellow students after one year of studying Russian. We went to Leningrad (this was in 1975) , where we were invited by a Russian student to have tea at her and her parents' home. We also said we were bored - skuchno - instead of telling them how delicious their home-made cake was - vkusno.
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