No kidding. Try being from Washington: scroll all the way to the bottom of the menu, where you’d think you’d find “WA”, but no, the bottom of the list is filled up with APOs, FPOs, and all manner of other US territories/protectorates.
On a similar note …
My roommate, who is about my dad’s age (61-62), spent a few years helping out a single mother of four kids. This family moved to a different town a couple years ago. One of the kids called my roommate on the phone to say “hi” and chat for a bit.
After the phone call, my roommate wrote a thank-you note (“Thanks for calling me!”) and dropped it in the mail. :rolleyes:
Let’s see …
East Coast sportscasters who can’t pronounce “Oregon” correctly
Businesses that call their own products by the wrong name. Specifically, my local Godfather’s Pizza restaurant. For some reason, at some point during the last couple of years, they’ve started saying “thick crust” instead of “original crust”, and for customers like me, who have been eating at Godfather’s Pizza since 1980, this means I sometimes get my pizza with the wrong crust.
The problem comes from the fact that the “original crust” is no longer the default crust. As I heard the story, the founder of the company got divorced, and it just so happened that the original crust recipe belonged to his wife. In order to keep serving this crust, the company would have to pay a fee to the now-ex-wife. So they responded by coming up with a new recipe, which they called “golden crust”, and made that the default crust. A customer can still get the “original crust”, but it has to be specifically requested.
Because “golden crust” is the default now, some newer employees assume that is what is meant when a customer asks for “original crust”. So somebody at this particular restaurant started saying “thick crust” instead of “original crust”, in a misguided attempt to reduce the confusion. The problem for me is that the “original crust” is actually thinner than the “golden crust”. So I refuse to call it “thick crust” just on general principle. Instead, I point to one of the various photographs of “original crust” pizza and say, “original crust, please, just like this picture”. It’s interesting to note that every single photograph of a pizza in Godfather’s advertising depicts the “original crust”, and still some employees think that the other crust is the “original”. And unless something has changed since I worked for Godfather’s many years ago, the bags of flour are clearly labeled “original crust” and “golden crust”. Not “thick crust” and “thin crust”.
