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Customer: What can I have to start with?
Server: Soup or salad.
Customer: What's Super Salad?
Server: What do you mean, "Super Salad"?
Customer: Didn't you say you have a Super Salad?
Server: No, we don't have anything like that. Just plain green salad. Or you can start with tomato soup.
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This is a practice dialogue in my ESL class textbook. I learned this dialogue with my tutor last quarter. However, today at the Olive Garden Restaurant, I made the same mistake:
I: Stuffed Chicken Marsala, please.
Server: Do you want soup or salad?
I: Super Salad? Is it free? (No way will I make the $30-haircut mistake again)
Server: Yeah. Which one do you want? Soup or salad?
I: Or? (Since I heard Super Salad, I was waiting to hear the second choice)
Server: That's it.
I: You said I have two choices. What's the choice other than Super Salad?
Server: No, no. I said you can have soup, or salad.
I: 
(Suddenly remembered the dialogue in my ESL textbook)
English is hard. If I cannot pass the TOEP in June, I'm going to take one more ESL class next quarter.
Btw, the Stuffed Chicken Marsala was good.
