Completely incredible question from a customer today

Working a retail wine store on a Sunday can be really interesting.

Today a very well dressed lady in her 50's asked me if Aaustria and Aaustralia were the same...........

Peter

Working a retail wine store on a Sunday can be really interesting.

Today a very well dressed lady in her 50's asked me if Aaustria and Aaustralia were the same...........

Peter

So Peter, what was your answer. I might have made a distinction between Austria, and Australia!

Hard to even know where to begin with that...

Was the customer's name "Sarah Palin" by chance?

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Rogov

This aide-memoir might help.

it is a fridge magnet my son bought in Austria

[David M. Bueker]

Did she spell both with an extra "a" at the beginning?

Did she spell both with an extra "a" at the beginning?

She stuttered.

Mark Lipton

I didn't have to answer her.......

Her husband and daughter couldn't stop laughing......<G>

Peter

Was the customer's name "Sarah Palin" by chance?

OMG, Daniel, I don't know if I've ever laughed so hard in my life. I nearly choked to death. You missed your calling as a stand up comic!

How have you been, Peter?

Your lady customer isn't the only person in the world who doesn't know the difference between Austria and Australia. When I lived in Japan in the late 1980s the diethylene glycol scandal broke in Austria, which shook the Japanese up because it turned out that Japanese wineries had been importing Austrian wine doctored with diethylene glycol, to give the wine body, and then adding a little of their wretched Japanese wine to the mix and selling it as "Japanese Wine." After the diethylene glycol scandal broke, sales of Japanese wine sunk overnight and you couldn't give away Austrian wines. And there was collateral damage: the Australian embassy reported that nobody iin Japan was buying their wines.

.... You missed your calling as a stand up comic!

Steve, Hi......

I may not agree* but there are those who say that all critics are little more than stand-up comics.

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Rogov

*In fact, I most defintely do not agree.

I still get confused between Slovenia and Slovakia.

Was the customer's name "Sarah Palin" by chance?

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Rogov

No actually, it was Joe Biden the court jester!

Was the customer's name "Sarah Palin" by chance?

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Rogov

No actually, it was Joe Biden the court jester!

To quote the alcoholic, drug abuser and great humanitarian Rodney King, can't we all just get along?

I still get confused between Slovenia and Slovakia.

NM and NH is tough too for those fortunate to live outside the US of A!!!

Was the customer's name "Sarah Palin" by chance?

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Rogov

No actually, it was Joe Biden the court jester!

To quote the alcoholic, drug abuser and great humanitarian Rodney King, can't we all just get along?

Geeze, sorry, lost my head for a moment.