" Where is the Ocean?" LOL

[NancyIL]

Just goes to show...there's no shortage of stupid people in the world.

 

[DVCLiz]

On my first job as a Library Assistant, a young girl came in to get some research material for a report she had to write. She asked me where the books on South Africa were. I told her there was no such thing as "South Africa" but we had some books on Africa. Imagine my surprise to find a whole shelf of books on the country of South Africa. Bless her heart, she just looked at me like, 'You are such a moron, how did you get a job here?" I mumbled something, can't remember what it was, and hoped I never had to wait on her again!!!

In my defense, I was only 22 and hadn't had geography since elementary school. This was well before South Africa was in the news on a regular basis, but still...I sure did learn a lot about basic geography after that!!!

 

[ufgator]

These are really funny.

 

[Ruana74864]

Should be listed as: Things that make you go DUH! I love stories like this. Makes me feel smart.

 

[Lisa_Belle]

I work at a university, and you'd be surprised by the things we hear...

One student got into a discussion with a secretary about the forests in Washington. Student didn't think think she was correct, because he's been there--nope, no trees in Washington, at least not a lot. Secretary has a puzzled look on her face...then says, "Oh...you mean Washington, DC. I was talking about the state of Washington. Student replies, "you mean there's a difference?"

So, did George Washington's grim grinning ghost chop down all those cherry trees? I was really hoping to see them someday.

 

[Popsicle]

Okay, here's mine....

A couple of us from the job were taking a trip to Spain many years ago and we were talking to some co-workers about it. Nowkeep in mind we're located smack dab in the Midwest. One lady asks in all seriousness "Are you driving?"

We were fortunate enough to have a globe nearby so I pointed it out to her and its proximity to our location. Have to admit, I wasn't as gracious as it sounds here, but when you loved geography as much as I did, I couldn't imagine someone who had children not know something this basic. Sorry, I was young at the time.

 

[jimmybop]

This reminds me of a time that the phone in the hospital elevator started to ring. Being the outstanding empolyee that I am, or atleast around the boss, I answered it. They started their script of how I could save alot of money on car insurance ,ok maybe it was magazines but this sounds better. And I stopped them explained that they called an elevator in a hospital. and what happened next?? anyone? anyone? They started all over from the beginning/ Ya go team. I had no other choice but to do the right thing and order from him. Ok maybe not, I just hung up on him but we all got a good laugh in the elevator that day.

Sorta related to this.... I was working at the Disney Store one day last year, and I picked up the phone, and after doing the normal answering thing I realized it was a computer recording and found out that I had won a trip to DISNEY WORLD!!!!! Come to find out, we had gotten the same call on another one of our lines with the same recording a few days earlier.

 

[Florida_Mom]

One time, I was on a flight to DC, and the woman next to me was arguing with me that Washington was in the middle of the country, not on the east coast. She believed that because it was the capital, it had to be in the center!

Please tell me these people don't vote.

 

[digskat]

We stopped in Macon, Georgia on our way to WDW two years ago. My MIL was drying our towels after a swim, and another lady in the hotel laundry room struck up a conversation with her. After my MIL told her she was Canadian, she said she had met a Canadian family the previous evening, and was totally shocked that the families didn't know each other.

 

[GalDisney]

Sort of like the all toofamous cruise ship question.." what time is the midnight buffet?" lol

 

[MyGoofy26]

A kid who lived on my floor in college insisted that West Virginia was NOT a state. It was just the western half of Virginia!

Come on now, people, this was college!!!

You'd be amazed how many people don't realize WV is a state. I live in WV, and hear it all the time. People STILL think it's western Virginia. Yeah, we've only been a state since the freakin' Civil War! I usually don't even bother anymore and just tell people I'm from Pittsburgh. Close enough - 40 minutes away.

When I did my college program at Disney my roommate and I got this ALL the time. She was from Virginia, and of course there was me from West Virginia. "Oh, so you're sisters?" No buddy - two different states.

 

[DannyDisneyFreak]

Reminds me of a tourist I talked to a couple of years ago -she said they came to Canada to see the igloo's and couldn't find any -IT WAS THE MIDDLE OF JULY AND IN NOVA SCOTIA!!!

That reminds me, I have some friends that live in Ontario, Canada, one was telling me that one summer he met a group from Colorado at a gas station, they had their truck filled with ski equiptment and were wondering where they could ski, I couldn't believe they would drive from COLORADO of all places thinking they could ski in the middle of summer in Canada!

 

[DannyDisneyFreak]

Oh wow I just read the other story about sking in Canada in the summer, that must happen alot, WOW!

being from Niagara Falls, NY I have been traveling and spoken to people about where I am from and have been told that I live in Buffalo, when I explane that Buffalo is another city near NF they think I'm lying, or they don't believe me that Niagara Falls is in the USA and have to explane it's a boarder town NF, NY on one side and NF, Ontario on the other. I think I know my nationality. Was asked once "You live right in the waterfall?" Have also been asked "I bet you can hear the water when your slepping"

 

[AJKMOM]

During a trip to Gettysburg, my SIL asked "How were they able to fight a battle here? Didn't the monuments get in the way?" That was 25 years ago, and we still talk aobut it at family reunions.

 

[digskat]

Oh wow I just read the other story about sking in Canada in the summer, that must happen alot, WOW!

being from Niagara Falls, NY I have been traveling and spoken to people about where I am from and have been told that I live in Buffalo, when I explane that Buffalo is another city near NF they think I'm lying, or they don't believe me that Niagara Falls is in the USA and have to explane it's a boarder town NF, NY on one side and NF, Ontario on the other. I think I know my nationality. Was asked once "You live right in the waterfall?" Have also been asked "I bet you can hear the water when your slepping"

I had the other skiing story, and you wouldn't believe how often it happens. Being in Southern Ontario, we usually get snow the week of Christmas, and it is gone by March. You can ski in this area, from mid-January, until late February. I have been asked if I own a dogsled, if I snowshoe, and if I could say eh? for them. I don't say eh, I'm not Bob or Doug MacKenzie

 

[Hixski]

I live in a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri. Home of the STL Cardinals, the Gateway Arch, and on and on. This is a big city. Our suburbs head out 30 miles from downtown. You would not believe how many people think it is a so so sized small city in the middle of cornfields and farms.

But the best is: When we vacation we tell people we like to go to the ocean because where we live is landlocked. We had one person ask why we would go to Florida for the ocean when we could just go to Chicago for the ocean.
I mean Lake Michigan is big but last time I looked it still was not an ocean. Especially since it is called "LAKE" Michigan.

 

[HollisterSweetie]

Was asked once "You live right in the waterfall?" Have also been asked "I bet you can hear the water when your slepping"

 

[cowtownmom]

I got it! She was thinking about those commercials that say, "Texas....it's LIKE a whole other country!" The way teens say, "Like" with everything, she thought that Texas WAS a whole other country! The saga continues......

What??! You mean I don't live in another country???

It is scary just how dumb some people are!

 

[buckylarue]

I have a sister who was shocked to be told (in her mid-20s, after high school and junior college mind you) that Mount Rushmore was carved, and not (as she had thought) a natural phenomenon. "You mean they carved it? Well that's no big deal! I always thought it was pretty neat that it came out looking like the presidents so much, just from erosion!"

 

[Bunch24]

Probably about seven or eight years back, I was coaching a summer baseball team. And one practice, I was telling the kids that I would be gone for the weekend for a trip to Florida. Anyway, one of the players says "Oh yeah, going to the beach, huh?" So, I'm like "Yep, we're going to Destin."

So he says, "That's cool. We just got back from Hawaii. It's awesome there." Wow, that's cool, I thought. So I said, "How did you like flying?" He said, "We didn't fly, we drove."

I thought he was joking, so I said "Man, must have been a pain to make it all the way across that bridge, huh?" And he said, "There was a bridge, but it wasn't that long."

So, I got a little more serious, "You know Hawaii is a group of islands, right? You can't get there by car." And he replied, with a straight face, "Yeah, you can, you just follow the coast and then cross over by Texas."

At this point, I didn't have the heart to keep the conversation going. I just said "Well, you learn something every day." And I dropped it.

I *think* that his family went to Corpus Christi, but I never did find out for sure. Want to hear the worst part? He was 16, turning 17 and heading into his senior year of high school.

I'm a sports writer at a newspaper and naturally we get a lot of phone calls from people seeking scores. My favorite is when somebody calls and asks for a score and I answer "It's 2-2." And they inevitably say "Who's winning?"