I was staying in a hotel in Butte Montana, and decided to go relax in the hot tub. There were a couple of high school girls my age in there, and I started talking to them. They asked me where I was from, and the conversation went like this from there:
Me: Calgary.
Girl 1: Where's that?
Me: Alberta...
Girls: ...
Me: You know, the province directly north of you.
Girls: ...
Me: ... Canada?
Girl 2: Oh! Really? Thats so cool!
Girl 1: Is Canada big?
Me: Yeah, it's the 2nd biggest country in the world.
Girl 1: What do you do in Canada?
Me: Oh you know, swim with penguins, live in igloos, dog sled to school, that kind of stuff.
Girl 2: Omg, you swim with penguins? I've always wanted to meet a penguin, you are soooo lucky.
Girl 1: Does it get cold in the igloos?
Me: No, we've developed an ice that is actually warm.
Girl 1: Wow, you guys must be real smart or something.
At this point I seriously can't believe that I'm having this conversation and that they're actually believing me. To be fair, another guy from Calgary soon joined our conversation and asked me what the population of the US was. I told him it was 300 million, and he said "Really? I thought it was like a billion or something" so it's not just the US thats completely ######ed.
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