American Logic: 81 Times People Were Completely Confident And Wrong

An American dude told me that staring into the sun would heal your eyes... And his daughter heard it and she was like "oh my gosh why didn't you tell me this sooner???"

They laughed and both proceeded to stare at the sun while walking away.

An US citizen said that only they were real Americans. I told him: we are in America. There's North America, Central America and South America. Everyone that was born in this continent is an American. You are just a North American. Grow up.

I was leaving an airport to get into a taxi and there was an Asian worker organizing the cabs. A lady with a family asked for a taxi for five people and with her hand showing five fingers she slowly yield CINCO. He was Asian.

About 40 years ago I was visiting friends in Ontario, I live in Québec. We were out for a walk after supper and this car with plates from Tennessee stops us and asks us where he is. When we told him he wouldn't believe us. He must have driven through one of the unchecked roads that cross the border, there are quite a few across the country. So he says, "How can I be in Canada? It's a communist country. " My buddy asked him what made him think that Canada was communist. To which he replied " Well, it's Pink on the map."

None of us could contain our laughter. :).

When I was in Florida I was speaking to some cashier which couldn’t understand me to save my life because I’m Scottish so I toned down my accent for them but then they asked a question that made me lose all respect for them, “Where in England is Scotland at?”.

Not me but a friend of mine played a online game with a person from america and he asked her "how can you play online when you live in Denmark? They don't have internet there"

I think about that a lot.

Working for FedEx , I had a customer who was shipping a p****** to Mexico from the United States. He had filled out a domestic air bill for it, I told him he needed to fill out an international air bill since it was going to another country. He asked me what ocean does it have to cross.

On a date with a girl who said "ya know, I've always wondered what makes scientists lie about dinosaurs being real. Like, what's the motivation?"

In 2009 I was travelling across the US with a group of 14 in a minibus, all from the UK and 1 Australian. On our way north we stopped at a diner in Mississippi for lunch. We were giving our orders to the very southern lady at the counter but when my Aussie friend asked for a cheeseburger, the lady just couldn’t seem to get what she was saying and to her “honey, I can’t understand a word you’re saying, are you French?’ She said “No, I’m Australian”. “Austrian?” Was the confused reply. I eventually ordered for both of us in my clearest English and got a surprised ‘well don’t you speak English proper good!’.

Lady was also a massive racist so……fun lunch.

North Carolina dude: Where y'all from?

Me: Toronto Canada

North Carolina dude: I know a guy from Toronto, his name's Bob. Do you know him?

Me: Sigh.

True story.

I was walking down the boardwalk in Venice beach at dusk with some people and the girl next to me points up and says "wow look, you can see the stars already and the sun hasn't even set! That's so crazy!”

To which I responded "well, technically the sun is also a star so it's not too crazy if you think about it."

She shoots me a condescending glare and says "Uh no! What are you talking about?!The sun isn't a star because it doesn't come out at night!"

I didn't look at or respond to her. The rest of our group just stayed very silent for about 10 seconds and kept walking until someone changed the subject.

We ditched her later on when she stopped to use the bathroom.

Back in 2000 I was in Florida on vacation with the family and we was shopping at one of the big outlet malls. On noticing I was British, the checkout employee asked me if I know the Queen. When I replied in the affirmative, she asked what she was like. I proceeded to tell her, what a great lady the Queen was and we all have afternoon tea with her on Sundays, but we all have a specific time slot so we have to be quick.
After a few more conversation changes she asked me if we have electricity in the UK and if it is less powerful than American electricity.

"But it's a made up place, Like in fairy a tale? It has to be because it's a dragon on a flag and some kinda Klingon language! You can't be from some fictional country"
An American guy from Denver trying to tell me Wales isn't a place....Even though I'm A Welsh girl lol.
He also asked later on in the day if England and Scotland are the same country and if People wear jeans in Ireland.....he was either dumb or ignorant!

I live in Canada, near the border. While working in a grocery store over the years, I have had *three separate Americans* inform me, in a snotty tone, that *everthing* in the store is expired.

The first time it happened, I had no clue why anyone would think that. Could he really believe that every single product in the store expired and he was the only person to notice? My flabber was well and truly gasted until he insisted, with scorn, that everything had expired in May. (Every time this happened, it was in June.)

I looked at the expiration date, and it clicked. I explained to him that when it says BB/MA, that stands for Best Before / Meilleur Avant, because we have French on all the packaging. If you look just beside the MA, there's the date.

He had nothing to say after that. The second person, years later, was harder to convince. I was also having a hard time believing that it had happened again.

Years later again, when I got the third one, I just asked right away if this was his first time visiting Canada. It stopped him in his tracks and he admitted it was. Then I showed him the abbreviation and he caught on much faster than the others. Maybe my explanations were getting better.

I left that store before getting a fourth. I wonder if they're still coming in, looking around at all the employees and customers, and wondering why we're all so stupid that he's the only one to notice that the entire store has expired.

Alaska isn't attached to Canada.

"Is that a castle?". Gigantic Karen in shorts in Ireland pointing at a massive castle right in front of her. Complained to the manager that the castle should be clearly signposted as such.

I had a friend who thought Asia was a country.

I was having a walk in a touristy town in Bali. An American tourist asked me "hey excuse me, do you know where I can find an ATM ?" I pointed to a bank that had two I had used a couple of hours before, and told her "but watch out, the one on the left only has notes of 50,000 rupees".

She was taken aback and answered "wow, wait... you mean those ATMs do not have DOLLARS ? They only give these local rupees ? But hey, how can I get dollars then ? I need dollars !"

I laughed a bit and told her "you're in Indonesia, so it makes sense ATMs have Indonesian currency in them.. Do you think you could get Indonesian rupees from ATMs in New York or LA ?". She made this face that looked like "let me deeply think about that" and after 5 seconds said "well..no, I guess..".

Unfortunately I have way too many of these.
From JUST the last 24 hours.


"Seeing eye dogs don't need training".


"You're not allowed to tackle in rugby!"


"I could beat an Olympian if she's a girl." - From an obese guy.

I worked as a dispatcher for a Chicago trucking company. Many drivers asked me if we celebrate 4th of July and Thanksgiving here in Europe.