cavanami Posted July 18, 2011 Report Share Posted July 18, 2011 Spent the afternoon with my Auntie and cousin. They were going on and on with questions, like: Do they have air con in LOS? Do they have highways there? Do they have trains and a bus system? After a dozen of such questions, I told my cousin, who has a passport and has traveled outside of the USA, like give me a break, LOS is not some mud-floor swamp country! Anyone have a similar experience? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuckwoww Posted July 18, 2011 Report Share Posted July 18, 2011 Well I did once....I've learned not to mention Thailand away from this board. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WorldFun Posted July 18, 2011 Report Share Posted July 18, 2011 what is aircon?? think it's an US thing. pretty much most of europe've been to asia already Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gobbledonk Posted July 19, 2011 Report Share Posted July 19, 2011 Given the number of Russians I see wandering around Pattaya/BKK, I'm with Flash. I'm beginning to wonder if they've converted a few Antonovs to passenger duty and 'bus' them over for 5000 roubles each .... (I know - more millionaires in Moscow than any other city on earth - but these aint millionaires ..) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangkoktraveler Posted July 19, 2011 Report Share Posted July 19, 2011 When the Iraq war broke out, somebody asked me if Bangkok has many camels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khun_Kong Posted July 19, 2011 Report Share Posted July 19, 2011 A guy from New York was asking the same queations about West Virginia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julian2 Posted July 19, 2011 Report Share Posted July 19, 2011 An educated Thai once said, on hearing I was from Australia... "ahh, yes. Many kangaroos". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted July 19, 2011 Report Share Posted July 19, 2011 An Aussie in Sydney asked where I was from. I replied ... California. He then said, "My cousins live in Cleveland, Ohio. Do you know them?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave32 Posted July 19, 2011 Report Share Posted July 19, 2011 A friend and I were chatting up a couple birds and they asked where we came from. He told them he was from America. Then they looked at me, I showed them my driver's license and they practically started squealing: "Kal-EEE-Fornia!!!" Later one of their friends walked up and eventually asked the same question. The two girls told her to guess. Australia? No. Sweden? No. America? The two girls told her - yes, his friend, but not him. Where?? He's from CALIFORNIA@! Oh boy. (Friend was from LA too but we left it where it was). The only thing people here (US) ask is if I've ever seen 'locked up abroad.' Since a huge chunk of LA is from SE Asia, not many awful questions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MooNoi Posted July 19, 2011 Report Share Posted July 19, 2011 Mostly had this experience with Americans (in the US) asking me stupid questions about Australia! Best one I ever got was: "So... is it true you can walk across to New Zealand at low tide?" WTF?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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