Pet Peeve

I LOVE people from different countries.  Shoot, I have lived in two foreign countries, and grew up a stone's throw away from another country.  I love talking with them, or listening to then try to tell a story! I love to hear their bizarre grammatical errors, or help them think of a word that they have forgotten.  I have been the foreigner, and I am sure that people were just as amused by my accent or misuse of a word.  Now, that said, there is one place foreigners should not work:  a call center.  Due to a series of annoying  events, I was forced to call a 1800 number.  Ash answered in his VERY thick accent.  Which I would normally find intriguing and interesting... but NOT when I am trying to figure out how this company got my credit card information, and charged my account for a magazine subscription to Entertainment Weekly.  So, Ash and I tried so hard to converse and work out my problem.  The bigger problem came when I could not understand a word he was trying to say.  "Can you spell that?" I ask.  Ash spells it.  (Still don't get it... what he spelled was NOT a word).  "Umm.. I am sorry, I don't know that word, can you spell it again?" Ash proceeded to spell it again, still no help.  "I am sorry, but I cannot understand."  CLICK.  HE HUNG UP ON ME! When I called back and spoke with his buddy Amer, I was not as friendly.  If I ever live in Hungry, or any foreign  country where they don't speak English as the mother tongue...I will never put my application in at the local call center. I promise!