I’ve been told that same thing by an adult.
Now, see, I can see this leading to a Sneetches moment. If Iwas gay, and had a girlfriend, which one of us needs to get the gender change so that we are “normal”? Do we both have to? But then we both have to change again, right?
Susan
Ha, this was WAY before Youtube. Let’s just say she was very dejected the next morning. At least she didn’t try eating flour (a period-stopping maneuver suggested by another co-worker. Give us a break, we worked at McDonald’s).
My ex-girlfriend, upon meeting a pair of traveling Canadians.
GF: So, like, who rules you?
Canadians: Huh?
GF: Do you have your own government?
Canadians: …yes.
GF: Oh, cool!
So, that’s one of the reasons she’s your ex-girlfriend, right?
The one that gets to me was something a sales rep at my ex-employer said to me last summer when we were trying to find out why he wasn’t using the contact management software we’d implemented a few months earlier. Here’s what he said:
“I can’t learn.”
A month later, when we pointed out there were several classes available on it, he said, “I won’t take a class.”
I don’t miss him.
While taking a class one semester we got on the subject of country singer Hank Williams Jr. The teacher said he took after his father.
One student asked, “What was his father’s name?”
:smack:
This was the same girl, when we were talking about classic literature, mentioned that she was well-versed in literature because she’d read all the Danielle Steele novels.
IIRC, she ended up dropping the class.
One night on the news, there was a story about a guy who rescued a driver whose car was trapped under a live power line of some kind. The driver didn’t understand English and didn’t understand that he had to jump clear. As the driver was about to touch the ground, the bystander used a wooden handled shovel to knock the wire off the car, or something.
The news reporters stressed that you should NEVER attempt to move a wire, and that he had used a non-conductive WOODEN handle in this urgent case. Then reminded viewers, NEVER try to move a wire or touch an electricifed car. And NEVER touch anyone who is getting electrocuted.
My now ex-girlfriend yawned and said, “You could kick someone clear with your foot if you’re fast enough.”
I said: “You think you’re faster than an electric current? That’s like being faster than lightning.”
She: “Sure. It’s safe if you’re fast enough.”
cwPartner and I get this occasionally, despite his being many years older (even at our age, this is obvious) and of different ethnic background than I.
Hell, I didn’t even know they had an Air Force…
I was traveling with a guy in the Foreign Service who was an electonics engineer, and therefore (one would assume) educated. We went to Oslo and took a cab from the airport. The cabdriver points out the king’s residence and my companion asks: “Is he in charge of Sweden, too?” Long, measuring look from the driver to see if he’s being whooshed, then, in a voice like you would use with a not-too-bright five-year old, “noooo, that would be the King of Sweden.”
I saw a post-game interview with a defensive lineman who’d recovered a fumble on the 12 yard line and rumbled in for a TD. He was asked “Were you aware this was your first NFL touchdown?”
The look he gave the reporter was classic.
-One of my supervisors tried to convince me that titanium is an alloy comprised of over 50 elements.
-I told my sister that I was traveling to the Middle East and she said, “Isn’t that where the bombs go off?”
-I was wearing a Beatles t-shirt a couple years ago and a co-worker asked me, “Did you get that on tour?” They broke up before I was born.
-A restaurant where I used to work took pride in its refusal to use microwaves. When their introduction was forced by menu changes, the new machines were identified as “cobblers”, not microwaves, as “cobblers” heat from the outside-in, not the inside-out.
-A friend of mine drank from bidets for a year, thinking they were drinking fountains.
I think you win.
To the OP: I think that all Elementary Education majors should be rounded up and sent to a desert island. I once spent 20 minutes unsuccessfully trying to explain to one why the sun always comes up in the east. I even used props like lamps and such. 
When everyone knows they’re for washing your feet in
Actually, I think she might be right - if someone is getting electrocuted and you could hurl your own mass at them in such a way as to dislodge them and then both fall clear of the danger - sure, you might experience a shock (and yes, maybe a deadly one), but you could ‘kick someone clear’ of electrocution, in some cases.
The following are all true stories from my (thankfully) short-lived stint as a gift-store clerk in Halifax, NS:
“So… are y’alls prices in American or Canadian dollars?”
(You remember that funny looking red and white flag that was waving when you got off the big cruise ship this morning? And the fact that everyone around you says “eh” instead of “huh”? It means you’re in Canada, nitwit.)
“Can you help me figure out what size shirt I should buy for my girlfriend? She’s about this size.”
customer then holds both his hands in front of his chest as if he was grabbing a pair of grapefruits
(Great. She wears a 36B size shirt.)
“Hey, this looks just like Monopoly money!”
(Sure, because the really smart thing to do would be to make all your money the exact same colour, thus making it that much easier to give someone a $20 instead of a $1 while drunk. Gee, what a backwards country we are.)
If there’s one thing that job taught me, it’s that cruise ship tourists are a rare breed of ignorant, and that sailors on shore leave should never ever attempt to buy clothing for their girlfriends.
Here in the land of green money, we don’t seem to have that problem. We look at the numbers, you see…
That’s two things. I hereby use your post as my response to this thread.
Well, 103 years ago, the King of Sweden was in charge of Norway too. You could be charitable, and assume he got his wires crossed
In grad school, I once had to explain to a friend of mine that the phrase “nuking” in reference to microwave ovens is only a saying. No nuclear process (no radioactive elements, no alpha particles or other nuclear radiation) is used in the microwave. It’s pure electromagnetism. Did I mention our field was physics?
To be fair, many tourist areas accept US dollars. Sometimes shops whose customers are mostly American tourists even post prices in US dollars, too.
While funny, both of these are examples of thinking rather than stupidity.