Getting My Coffee To-go, Since 1983.

Saturday, August 27, 2005

Conversation in a Hostel

"So are you both Canadian?"
"No, I'm from San Francisco, actually. Where did you fly in from?"
"New Jersey." -pause-
"My geography of the East Coast is kind of..."
"It's next to New York."
"Oh, okay." -pause- "But it's, like, its own state, right? It's not in New York?"
"Yeah."

- posted by roger @ 12:32 PM

Comments:

Really, my issue is that he was American. I generally accept that we, as a people, are geographically morons. But failing to even recognize the name of a state?

# posted by

roger : 8/30/2005 11:41 PM

I knew some kid from Harvard who didn't know where or what Kansas was (he thought it might have been a city). He was not foreign.

# posted by

Anonymous : 8/31/2005 1:35 PM