“50 Jaw-Dropping Questions That Will Make You Rethink What ‘Dumb’ Really Means!”
“Is that your real skin?”
I think she meant to ask if I’d had cosmetic work done, but I was quite alarmed. No. No, it’s not. It’s a backup skin that I carved out of a turnip.
I was at Niagara Falls with my British sister-in-law. We were looking at the section of the river right where the water goes over the falls. She asked me “Is the water very toxic, then?” I replied, “No, the great lakes is where southern Ontario gets it’s drinking water. Why would you think it’s toxic?” She replied, “Well, everyone who falls in the river here, dies.” I had to explain that they died because they went over the Falls. This had never occurred to her.
I was on the phone with an American based hotel chain, looking to book a hotel in Seoul. The agent wasn’t familiar with that location, so I shared that it was in Korea.
“Kansas?”
“No, the country-Korea.”
*silence while typing*
“North or South Korea?”
I refrained from pointing out the likelihood of an American chain having a location in North Korea.
Someone asked me once if bananas were vegan……their justification was “maybe they’re tested on animals” *HUH*????
“Is it true you all live in igloos?”
Asked by someone from the deep south when I worked help desk for IBM in Canada. Dead serious.
