10 things … thing 1
Welcome to the occasional series of 10 things. Here I will tell of the 10 things I love about North America and 10 things I hate about North America
Of course, being Scottish I am naturally full of negativity and moaning (Jeez if you lived in this weather you’d be a bit down too!). So I am kicking the 10 things thing off with a thing I hate.
10 things I hate about North America
Oi! What is it with the date? I hate that, I really do and not just a little. Quite a lot actually!
I arrived at my rental apartment in Arlington last week and I looked on my rental agreement and it said I was actually arriving on the 4th of May. Feck! I booked it wrong, I am going to have to sleep on a bench in the Pentagon City Fashion Mall (no bad thing coz there’s an Apple Store and a …. but I digress).
And then I remember that Americans (and you Canadians are a bit guilty of this too) write the date wrong.
Month, Day, Year. (04/05/2008) What is that about?
It’s Day, Month, Year (05/04/2008). Obviously!
It so very very confusing for us non-North Americans.
Come on people of America and Canada.
Get with the rest of the world.
Get with all those computers. You evented the damn things (well you didn’t actually the Engerlish did that, I’ll give you that you invented the transistor but I digress yet again ….)
Where were we ?
Yes, the computers
You invented their date format dd/mm/yyyy
Get with the machines!
I feel better now that I got that off my chest. Sorry about strongish language. I was upset.
April 22nd, 2008 at 2:49 pm
Are you in America then? Arlington is in America, isn’t it? I know because JFK was buried there. I thought you weren’t going till the summetime. I’ll have to phone Le Chef to find out what’s going on here. It’s amazing if you are actually in America. But Washington must be dead by this time. Or hundreds of years old. Watch out for the grizzly bears. They’ll be hiding behind trees and waiting to jump out to ask for your autograph. But I take my hat off to you! I’m too scared to spend a night in my allotment. Hotboy
April 23rd, 2008 at 7:24 pm
Hotboy: I was in America 2 weeks ago on business. I go back on the 11th and start cycling on 17th May. I am a bit worried about bears coming to savage me however I will lay trout and salmon near other campers’ tents to trick the bears into eating them (i.e. the fish and. the other campers). Perhaps an Uzi would see them off too.
May 22nd, 2008 at 3:11 am
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