USC Clueless Families?

[Brad and Vika 129]

people used to ask me if they celebrated Christmas in the UK

[almaty 19]

people are dumbf##ks, if the farthest they have ever gone is the county line

[Craneman 2]

Talk about clueless... I remember my future MIL bringing out her globe one time to ask me where the Philippines is located. I tried my very best not to laugh out loud.

I have been to the Phillipines twice, they are close to Okinawa, Right?

[Big Papa Zone 93]

people used to ask me if they celebrated Christmas in the UK

The standard one I get regularly is, "so do you guys celebrate Thanksgiving over there?"

people are dumbf##ks, if the farthest they have ever gone is the county line

I'm seeing a picture of 'er indoors (before she met me) in my mind She's from your Southern Illinois neck of the woods, too.

[almaty 19]

southern illinois rules..my honme tyrf..i lose 30 points on my iq when i go down there

[Big Papa Zone 93]

southern illinois rules..my honme tyrf..i lose 30 points on my iq when i go down there

Yes, I can see why!! She lives in a hick town called Percy (Sparta, Chester & Carbondale being the only towns of any sort of size nearby).

[Dr. Obvious 49]

When I was pregnant with my daughter, my mother asked if Germany had diapers because she could send some if they didn't.

[almaty 19]

southern illinois rules..my honme tyrf..i lose 30 points on my iq when i go down there

Yes, I can see why!! She lives in a hick town called Percy (Sparta, Chester & Carbondale being the only towns of any sort of size nearby).

know percy well. i am from williamson county...herrin..near marion

[paul. 0]

Well, my wife comes from a small town on an Indian Reservation in NE Oklahoma. A lot of the folks there have never left the county, let alone the State (bearing in mind, 20 miles north of us is Kansas...! ).

I absolutely love it there because people haven't ever lived in a city and are therefore very, very friendly and it is just a great place to call home.

I've had all the questions like, "do you celebrate christmas", etc but put it all down to lack of knowledge and tried to educate them that England was indeed a first world country with running water, cars and al that. Then this one time we were having a grill in the front yard and we invited a cowboy on his walk home from a nearby ranch to join us (Yes, our community is THAT small).

We were talking about how I'd nearly been there 85 days and had to go back on the 85th day to avoid problems with the VWP. He asked me where my accent was from. I said "England", he says "how far away is that?", I say "about 4500 miles" and finally, he replies, verbatim, "Damn, that's gotta be the longest darn drive ever!".

Some of our locals have never been in an aeroplane and we don't have any overhead airways with large airliners flying past, so I guess for the uneducated that don't watch TV and never leave the county, flying is a pretty crazy thought...hehehe.

[Soancika+Brian 0]

I told him that we don't have cars and that we ride dinosaurs.

Though to back up, I was surprised to see how many people were still using horses and carts in the far countryside. Sure there were cars, but also horses and carts. There was electricity, but few houses had running water, it all came from a well, one of those old fashioned draw types. Most of the old people we saw were dressed like I had seen in ancient Soviet photos of village people. The trains came to match, smoking Soviet era beasts. It was really weird to contrast that with what I saw of Lithuania from Vilnius and Kaunas. Like stepping back in time 60-100 years. Still, I'd recommend a visit to anyone who is ever out that way. I'd like to go back sometime.

Yes, thats the deep country side. Some country side people still use wells because water tastes way better, and horses. Soviet times just stayed with them. You painted the picture very darkly here.

Not every country is as beautiful as Germany. And i mean it. Would love to go back to Germany myself.

[Teacher Mark 53]

Some of our locals have never been in an aeroplane and we don't have any overhead airways with large airliners flying past, so I guess for the uneducated that don't watch TV and never leave the county, flying is a pretty crazy thought...hehehe.

If it's an aeroplane, why isn't it an aeroliner?

[paul. 0]

Physics...?

[trinket 30]

I have made it a habit of saying -- I am from India rather than I am Indian.

Whenever I say the latter I am being asked which tribe I belong to

I am not sure if its good or bad, but most of the time people can't really tell that I am from India untill I let them know. The other day I was asked by a lady at the grocerry store if I am from Hawaii

Edited February 3, 2009 by trinket

[MrsAmera 41]

My family was not as clueless as was everyone else. Let me tell you no one in Western WI had any idea where Morocco was - many thought it was Monaco and asked how rich he was. But as soon as I said it was in North Africa they said "oooooh AFRICA?? have you been there? Did you see any elephants or giraffes??" Yes because in Africa everything is the same....

[Soancika+Brian 0]

My family was not as clueless as was everyone else. Let me tell you no one in Western WI had any idea where Morocco was - many thought it was Monaco and asked how rich he was. But as soon as I said it was in North Africa they said "oooooh AFRICA?? have you been there? Did you see any elephants or giraffes??" Yes because in Africa everything is the same....

That's funny!!!