During a long meeting with people from our Cape Town office, my boss asked if I could do some coffees. I duly took the order and read back to check what they wanted, 3 coffees, one with milk and two without.

"So that was two blacks and a white"

Yep sure enough, as I looked around the room - two black south africans and a white south african (not sure what the proper terms are). Luckily everyone saw the funny side - thank god.