Talk - Groan
Conventional
That sinking feeling when you read your new partner's card and see careless typos or phonetic spelling, such as 'blockwood', or 'jackerby':
will: my last partner had 'stamen' on his card ...
will: .... needless to say our partnership didn't flower
friend: groan
Then there are the misunderstandings that occur when people of different nationalities start discussing conventions:
(Italian): Texas, p?
(American): No, North Carolina
Or even your profile:
P: Hi p, is my profile ok? (you have none)
P's partner: What profile?
P: the left one
Did you really ask me that?
A rather impertinent question:
partner: 4nt is asking for asses pd
I take it the answer was 1.
