A forget it I need more sleep...

[Locut0s]

Delete stupid post .... neeedd sleeeep.....

[lost-in-nj]

1. What kind of point

are you trying to make with this post???

and if you work in retail you will get all kinds..

Especially if you are in a tourist city.....

and yeah
we call it soccer
so he was just letting his friend know he understood what sport he was talking about.


:shrug: :shrug: :shrug: :shrug:




lost

[two gun sid]

2. That's a tough question

Maybe you could put a sign in your store window saying, "Ignorant sounding North Americans not welcome here."

[Bunny]

3. Well, if he doesn't know how to park in Italy, how would you suggest he find out?

:shrug:

[WildEyedLiberal]

4. I'm an American living in the UK now

I know *exactly* what you're talking about. My sister visited me here earlier and she was even that way a bit - not particularly loud or obnoxious but friendly/clueless. Like when she stopped right in front of the turnstile on the Underground to put her passcard back in her purse and I had to remind her to get out of the way because other people need to get through, or when she was rummaging around for at least a minute at a cafe in Paris looking for a 50 cent piece, even though she had a Euro coin right there and the cafe lady was getting impatient, and she kept saying "well I just know I have a 50 cent piece in here, I could've sworn I did" when the lady obviously couldn't care less about having exact change. She wasn't trying to be rude or irritating, but at the same time, it's like she just behaved exactly the same as if she were in the US even though strangers aren't nearly as gregarious in Europe and are a bit put off by the over the top bombast.

She was very mild, though, compared to other Americans/Canadians I've seen here though (and yes, I have met plenty of Canadians and they're just as likely to be loud/goofy/dumb as Americans). I met one guy who had just arrived in London and mentioned something about going to Leicester square, except, as most London newbies do, he mispronounced "Leicester." I had made the same mistake, so I gently corrected him, and he was like "Eh whatever, I'm an American!" What the hell? So you'll just go on purposely mispronouncing British words because by God you're an American? I think he was kind of trying to be funny, but at the same time, I don't think he was joking about continuing to mispronounce it. People like that don't usually mean any harm, but they utterly lack the ability to perceive the world through any other viewpoint than the one they've grown up with, and they don't seem to notice that it's off-putting to just assume that the rest of the world identifies with the American mindset.