Is that so hard to order?

There is a rap song by KJ-52 called "A Coke, A Fry and a Cheeseburger." Now, musically, it doesn't top the charts. But I like to listen to it occasionally because the tune is catchy, and it's funny. The entire song is telling a story of trying to order a coke, a fry, and a cheeseburger at the drive-thru of his favorite fast food chain. When he tries to order, the man over the intercom continually cannot understand him and guesses all sorts of foods in the known American spectrum of fast food cuisine except for what he's ordering. We can all relate to frustrations over being misunderstood, especially when the limiting factor is technology (such as phones or intercoms). The part of the song that captures this frustration for me is when he says to the guy on the intercom, "All I want is a coke, a fry, and a cheeseburger. Is that so hard to order?"

I'm used to the limiting factor of technology in listening comprehension, but I still haven't adjusted to the language barrier. Yesterday in my Turkish class, I talked with my teacher about fortunetelling, demons, prejudice, and civil strife. When I leave class, I feel pretty good about my Turkish skills. Then I went to Burger King. I saw an ad for ice cream, and I was hungry. Now, at this particular Burger King, it's usually pretty noisy, and they have a hard time understanding me. I know my accent isn't perfect, either. So I've worked hard to perfect my ability to ask for cheese on my burger, and the last two times, with some repetition, I've managed to successfully get cheese on my burger. Yesterday, all I wanted was a blackberry sundae, and fries. It was pretty empty at Burger King, so I was confident that they would understand me this time. I walk up to the register and ask for "böğürtlenli sundae ve cips." That's what it's called at Burger King, a sundae is a sundae. His reply? "Whopper Junior meal." Does Whopper Jr sound like a sundae to you? I repeat my order, and then he calls over the English-speaking manager (who I see about every other time I go there). I repeat my order, in Turkish, and the manager replies, "böğürtlenli sundae and fries. which fries-medium? large?" See, was that so hard to order?