crazy enough

[JACEK1]

Hello,

Many years ago, I landed in hospital. I must tell you that i have always had a sweet tooth. The sweetshop was across the street from the hospital. I had a problem with my leg and could not walk. I determined to buy several finger-licking good donuts. All I had to do was take the opportunity to get what I wanted. I snuck out of the hospital Ward, crossed the street and arrived at the sweetshop. Unfortunately, the head of the ward found out about everything I had done.He looked me up and down and said:
One must be crazy enough to go and buy sweets in your condition. One must be as crazy as to buy sweets in your condition.

What do you think?

 

[emsr2d2]

Neither.

You'd have to be crazy to go and buy sweets in your condition.

 

[Tarheel]

Doc: You must be crazy to go buy sweets in your condition.
Jacek: But they taste so good. Would you like a sweet roll?
Doc: What have you got?
Jacek: How about a cheese Danish?
Doc: That's my favorite. You don't mind?
Jacek: Go right ahead. I have plenty.

;-)

 

[TheParser]

One must be crazy enough to go and buy sweets in your condition.

What do you think?

NOT A TEACHER

Hi,

I think: "How could you be crazy enough to go (and) buy donuts in your condition?"

 

[Tdol]

It's odd to me that the speaker is using the pronoun one with such informal language. It is also not used consistently- your condition. Is this meant to sound authoritative in AmE, some AmE?

 

[GoesStation]

It's odd to me that the speaker is using the pronoun one with such informal language. It is also not used consistently- your condition. Is this meant to sound authoritative in AmE, some AmE?

I associate the pronoun one with British English, probably because British-American friends who immigrated around 1957 use it (or used, in the departed generation). Americans use it very rarely. I understand from this forum that it's no longer used much in British English either.

 

[Tarheel]

It's odd to me that the speaker is using the pronoun one with such informal language. It is also not used consistently- your condition. Is this meant to sound authoritative in AmE, some AmE?

I don't know about that, but this American doesn't use it.

 

[GoesStation]

One simply does not use the pronoun "one" when one is American, does one?

 

[Tdol]

Even in British royal circles, one has to be of a certain age to use it.