[ WP ] `` Omelette du formage . ''

`` Omlette du formage.'' 
 
 Wait. What? I look up from the menu that I was reading at the waiter. The waiter was... well waiting for me to finish my order. Something about what the waiter just said does n't sound right. `` Omlette du formage''? 
 
 The waiter, growing impatient with my seemingly indecisive demeanor, frustratedly asked, `` Sir, you did order the omlette du formage? Correct?'' His mustache twitching along with his eye being another sign of his growing impatience. 
 
 `` Yes, the omlette du fromage. ``, I replied. The waiter's eyes bulged at me like I said something offensive. Being confused, I asked him, `` Did I say something?'' He continued giving me a dirty look and then said, `` The omlette du formage? There is no such thing on our menu!'' 
 
 Bewildered with the apparent contradiction, I responded, `` You literally just asked me if I wanted the omlette du formage. So I confirmed. I want the omlette du formage!'' 
 
 Still giving me the dirty look, he stared at me closely. He was eyeing me up and down scrutinously as if I some fossil to be studied. `` You are a tourist, are n't you? ``, he asked after a few awkward minutes. 
 
 `` Yes I am. What about me being a tourist? ``, I asked curiously. `` I'm pretty sure you said'omlette du formage' to me. I just confirmed that I wanted to order it.'' 
 
 He then said, `` Ah. You see. I think you heard me wrong monsieur. I said fromage. Not formage. Fromage is the proper pronunciation.'' Taking a handkerchief out of his pocket and coughing into it, he continues. `` You probably did n't catch that subtle pronunciation difference.'' 
 
 That all makes sense now. `` Ah... Well, can I please have my order now?'' The waiter goes off and I sit there at the circular, dark wood table waiting for my order of a cheese omelette. Lesson learned, pay attention to pronunciation.
