I told my students once that I was going to Denmark for Christmas. One of them said, “Have fun in Colorado!”
Speaking of idoits and confusing states and foriegn places. A while back there was some problem in Georgia, you know the one on the other side of the world, rebels or something. Anyways, a woman my mom worked with was very worried that it might spill out of Georgia because she was going to Florida on vacation. She asked my mom if she should cancel her trip.
DAMN IT! WERE THE FIRST STATE! WE WERE HERE BEFORE ANYONE ELSE! what’s the point of being first if no one cares:(
You think that’s bad? Try living in Delaware for your entire life.
Those Wayne’s World jokes get really old.
I have a friend who was the trip chairperson for a ski club. This ski club is made of of well to do (read rich) professional people. Each should have at least 3 brain cells firing at a time right?
She put together a trip to Alaska for the club.
Three people came to the airport with their passports, and one guy was pissed because he could not find the exchange rate, on the net, for US dollars to whatever moeny they use in Alaska.
:wally
Rick’s question If you’re so rich, why aren’t you smart?
Rick, I fly with my passport. Mostly because it’s easier to use it than my driver’s lisence as ID.
I carry mine too in my travel wallet. But I guess I did not make myself clear, these people brought it because they thought they were going to another country.
I worked in the development office of a large university in North Texas. The woman whose desk was behind mine was responsible for posting all the donation checks. One day she got a check from a donor in Hawaii and she was fuming all over the place about these “idiots” who tried to donate with “foreign money”. And to make matters worse, she fumed, was that she didn’t even know what kind of currency they used in “Hawaya”!
There are still legions of people who think Catalina is a completely foreign place in every possible way, apparently because it not landlocked to the REST of California.
You went gambleing at Mohegan Sun casino again didn’t you:
Can I tell the opposite of this story? I was hanging out in an airport with a couple of female friends, waiting to board a plane to St. Thomas. As soon as we sat down at the gate, two loser guys immediately started hitting on my companions.
Among other things, the guys asked my friends what we would be doing on New Years’ Eve, and we told them we were going to the biggest party in town, on the island of Jost Van Dyke. The guys said it sounded like a blast and maybe they would go, too.
“Okay,” I asked, partly to cut these guys off, “do we all have our passports?”
One of the jerks laughed and sneered at me, “you do realize that you’re going to the United States Virgin Islands, right?”
Without hesitation, one of the girls I was with deadpanned, “Jost Van Dyke is part of the United Kingdom.”
We didn’t see them at the party.
Don’t fret. Dover will be the capital of the Mid-Atlantic Republic when my revolutions goes through.
Start printing up those red-backs now. The M.A.R.'s a-coming!
Yeah…our major telecommunications giant, Telstra, has apparently moved a lot of their call centre work to India. According to news reports, the call staff are tutored in ‘local knowledge’ (like todays weather, and who won the footy on Saturday) as well as developing a more Anglo accent so as not to freak out us locals!! But you’d think that they would have primed up on their basic geography beforehand…otherwise it gives the rest away.
