This happened a while ago, at our groups’ previous meeting location, a hotel just north of Grantham, but still makes me smile.
I walked through from the function room to the public bar, accompanied by Teresa (this bar and lounge has featured in quite a few of her posts), to order food. My lovely partner M wanted soup and I asked if it came with a breadcake or similar? The barman looked at me like I was an alien, not because we were dressed, that didn’t seem to bother him one jot, but because I had used a northern variation on bread roll. I thought - surely we aren’t that far from South Yorkshire, but further questioning established that he was from much further south.
I should explain, one of the quickest ways to start a healthy debate about regional differences is the names of these lovely individual bread products. Some others are Baps and teacakes. Even in my own office, within a twenty mile radius, there are three variations.
Just goes to show that being out dressed may be the last thing to cause a hiccup.