Lunch Break at Big Sal's

Actual conversation overheard at Big Sal’s at 27th and Vine in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Woman at the bar: “So you’re a Canook huh?”

Rob: “Well I guess if you are a Yank, I can be a Canuck.”

WATB: “So I guess it depends on where yer from then?”

Rob: “What does?”

WATB: “Bein’ a Canook.”

Rob: “Not really.”

(Rob: “Can you say knuckle?”

WATB: “Knoockle?”

Rob: “No, not like noodle, knuckle.”

WATB: “Knookle?”

Rob: “Nevermind.”)*

WATB: (to an entering customer) “Hey Bill, hot enough out there for ya? How’s the sidin’ bis?”

*Dialogue in brackets may have occurred only in the author’s head.