Here's Your Sign

[runewolf]

LOL at the New Mexico ones... Here in my neck of the woods we get people who can't understand that West Virginia is not part of Virginia. I get salesmen asking all the time how the weather in Western Virginia is..... I flatly reply "I don't know... I don't live there." To which I hear silence for almost a minute before they say, "but my file says you are located in West Virginia????" <sigh>

[Riverkilt]

I wish I woulda written them all down...

My favorite remains the drunk in the parking lot of an Albuquerque (yup that's New Mexico folks...) supermarket who hollered out at me, "Hey Switzerland!!"

Ron

[hallmarktex]

In New Mexico we are used to stupid questions some of the favorites;

We only ship over night to the United States. (really from Lands End).

Do you need to exchange currencey at the border?

Do I need a Passport?

And my personal favorite:

Do you speak English?

New Mexico was made a territory of the United States in 1848; a State in 1912. Somehow there is a big hole between Texas and Arizona!

I've got family in Albuquerque. My cousin was trying to buy tickets to the '96 Olympics in Atlanta and when he called the US Olympic ticket office he was told he would have to buy tickets in his own country. He asked for a supervisor and the supervisor told him the same thing. He had to call back on a different day to speak to someone with a clue.

[Jack Daw]

Now THAT'S a new one

I could banjo any who say such to me.

[Nighthawk]

I was born in Los Alamos. Am I not Amercan? Man, those New Mexico ones make my brain ache...

[davedove]

Although they are sort of humorous, the comments about New Mexico and West Virginia are sort of sad too. I could understand someone from another country not knowing the difference, but these were people from the States.

What that is showing is that many in the US not only don't know about other countries, they don't even know about their own.

[BroosterB1]

I was born in Los Alamos. Am I not Amercan? Man, those New Mexico ones make my brain ache...

No Hawk, you're a citizen It just explains that light blue glow you give off in the dark; you know the lampshade effect when your wearing your kilt!

[Smayniac]

Although they are sort of humorous, the comments about New Mexico and West Virginia are sort of sad too. I could understand someone from another country not knowing the difference, but these were people from the States.

What that is showing is that many in the US not only don't know about other countries, they don't even know about their own.

I wonder if the state quarters will have any effect on this? Scooby is very into them, and I imagine many other kids are as well. It certainly can't hurt.

Bob

[Ian.MacAllan]

Do you walk to school or take your lunch?

That was a reasonable question in many places in the USA during World War II because almost anything (e.g., gasoline, rubber, steel) used to build, operate, or maintain any kind of wheeled vehicle (even bicycles, tricycles and children's wagons) was rationed in support of the war effort. It took my father fully four months just to find me a bicycle in 1944, and it turned out to be made of parts from four different brands of bikes.

FYI, I walked. It was only three blocks, but it was uphill both ways---there was a ridge in the middle. Dad wouldn't let me ride my bike lest it be stolen while I was in class.

Those who rode carried their lunch so they'd need to make only one round trip per day. Food rationing made a school lunch service too complicated to be practical.

I think it was during the 1960's that the US Senate Postoffice briefly refused to deliver franked mail to New Mexico on the grounds that the Senators' franking privilege applied only to domestic mail.

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[Southern Breeze]

As a landscaper I've heard a LOT of stupid things.

For example, we were laying fescue sod and a neighbor asked "Is that grass?" Here's your sign.

I went out on a service call to fix an irrigation system once. The problem? It was getting the grass wet.