I was stopped at a roadside rest area in Nebraska once, sitting on the hood of my car smoking a cigarette (so shoot me), when a local came up to mooch a smoke off me. While I was getting it out for him, he looked down at my license plate (Alberta still had front plates at the time) and noticed I was from Alberta.
I know this will sound like a cliche American joke, but this is what followed. The guy saw Alberta on my plate and said "Oh, I know where that is ... it's by Calgary. You guys had the winter Olympics a few years ago. That's in Canada isn't it?"
I confirmed this to be all more or less true, at which point he got a confused look on his face and asked, "So how did ya'll get down here anyway?" I'm still sitting on the hood of my car, speechless at this point. After getting my brain in gear again, I told him I snowmobiled to the border and swapped my snowmobile for the car I was sitting on.
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