That's MS. Atlas to you...
A friend of mine, who I still keep in touch with from high school, emailed me the other day to give me her new email address. Apparantley, her and her family are moving from Florida to Georgia on a new job opportunity.
I emailed her back to congratulate her and kinda catch up and I was getting ready to end the email with a "Heeeeeeeyyy...you're getting cloooserr..." meaning it might make it easier for me to fly and visit if it's not as long as a flight to Florida.
Being burned on the subject of geography before (on a first date I made an ignorant comment about Europe being a country and that's before the moron on 5th grader said it) , I decided to look at a map of the U.S. It was there I saw that Georgia is simply above Florida.
I just ended the email with GOOD LUCK!
I emailed her back to congratulate her and kinda catch up and I was getting ready to end the email with a "Heeeeeeeyyy...you're getting cloooserr..." meaning it might make it easier for me to fly and visit if it's not as long as a flight to Florida.
Being burned on the subject of geography before (on a first date I made an ignorant comment about Europe being a country and that's before the moron on 5th grader said it) , I decided to look at a map of the U.S. It was there I saw that Georgia is simply above Florida.
I just ended the email with GOOD LUCK!
posted by Tanya Kristine at 10:40 AM
10 Comments:
I'm with you! I suck at geography... I don't think its necessary to have this information in your head...that's what maps are for.
oh! i love you!
i once new a girl who did not know that washington dc and washington state were two different places. she shall remain nameless
thats totally dufus cute...I remember the cutest girl in high school once rose her hand super fast when the teacher asked - it was the 70's - where is vietnam? and he picked her and she confidently said 'new york' it didnt matter she was still the cutest.
Get this....a "mature" woman (like 60's) came up to me in the store last week and said "I see you have wine over there from Chile. Is that in Italy?" It took all my strength to not let my jaw drop. I just smiled and said "No, it's not in Italy. Chile is in South America." She just said "Oh. Thank you." WTF? Wouldn't that be a no-brainer?
Oh, BTW, Quorn is available in America. That's where I got it. It's not sold in Canada because sometimes this country sucks. If I can buy it in a regular ol' grocery store in Niagara Falls, NY, you should be able to find it in Cali.
I love Quorn, try charcoaling the chichen cutlet......Yum!
Oh and I'm Geographically Challenged also:-) I grew up only going to Texas as a kid to see my mom's family. Even though I heard there were all these different states it made NO sense to me (much less countries). There was only Oklahoma and Texas in my limited world. We never went on a vacation except for the lake here so imagine my surprise going to Vegas to get married. I thought I was a world traveler at that point...LOL!
and what makes you think that she even knows where GA is...she probably thinks she's going somewhere next to Italy!
Remember... Just because the map is flat, doesn't mean the Earth is flat too...
If you look closely at the last picture on my last post, you'll see a part of the latest copy of National Geographic- I've read every issue since I was about twelve!
ya know, TK, i'm betting your MAINE brain was in charge at the time of your near miss and it so happens you're correct - that GA is actually closer to Maine than Florida. It's hard to be bi-brainal.
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