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I once had a BevMo cashier in California ask me, “Massachusetts? Is that in Canada?” Very little faith left.
by diatribattical 7y ago
I once had a BevMo cashier in California ask me, “Massachusetts? Is that in Canada?”
Very little faith left.
- impeachTheIdiot 7y agoYea, but it’s understandable an America sucks a geography (what do you expect with a shit education system). I expect better from the EU.
- madcaptenor 7y agoI once had a cab driver take me to MIT. Cab driver: "what is this place?" Me: "MIT" Cab driver: "what's MIT?" Me: "the Massachusetts Institute of Technology." Cab driver: "what's Massachusetts?"
- foldr 7y agoI had a cab driver in New York who was unable to take me to the Brooklyn Bridge.
- neffy 7y ago... well it keeps getting sold.
- et2o 7y agoPossibly didn't want to take you into Brooklyn. The Manhattan side isn't really walkable.
- foldr 7y agoI was already on the Brooklyn side. But the issue was literally that he had no idea what the Brooklyn Bridge was, not the precise drop-off location. (We just wanted to look around Dumbo for a bit.)
- et2o 7y agoWow! Hard to think of a more iconic landmark in that case.
- madcaptenor 7y agoSomeone else is probably out there complaining a cab driver wouldn't give them a ride to the Statue of Liberty.
- james_s_tayler 7y agoNot to be confused with the world class educational institution the Manukau Institute of Technology :P I always find it funny when I drive by that and I see the sign MIT.
- 9nGQluzmnq3M 7y agoMove over plebs, some people study at the Royal MIT: https://www.rmit.edu.au/ https://www.rmit.edu.au/
- madcaptenor 7y agoI find the German language funny because "mit" just means "with". I remember search engines having trouble with this in the late nineties.
- TMWNN 7y agoI've heard that, three blocks from Caltech, many people have never heard of the university.