One that entertained me, when my kids were very young and in pre-school and they were teaching them about who to call in an emergency. They taught the kids to “dial 9 - 1 - 1 Green”. And for a minute, we were confused. Then we realized oh yeah, with “modern” phones you have to send the call. Cell phone, current day landlines, they all have some kind of green button to complete the act of dialing. Our old school phones didn’t need that.
So what we thought was “common knowledge” about how to make a phone call has changed!
But the other one, and maybe this is only because of where I live, it drives me nuts when people refer to the Pentagon as being in Washington, DC. No, it isn’t. It’s across the river from DC, it’s in Virginia. I thought this was common knowledge, but apparently not.
But, never fear, I’m confused about other things. The first time I took my first car in for service, the tech asked if I wanted my tires rotated. I gave him a withering look and told him, “No, they rotated all the way here.” I wish I were making this up. I thought he was giving me the dumb blonde treatment (I’m brunette). DH told me that I had just given that guy a story to tell for the rest of his life.
So, apparently, rotating tires is a thing. Who knew?
My husband - who can’t skip - COMPETED in triple jump in HS! I think because it’s just one skip motion he got away with it being more of a leap of sorts. But he absolutely can’t do the alternating knees up thing.
My 70 year old cousin for some reason just remembered that she was almost held back in first grade because she couldn’t skip! Her siblings worked on it with her and she passed - she’s a great athlete even now.
This question made me think of a conversation this week with a group of women I hang out with. One mentioned she’d just gone to a Buc-eees for the first time, 2 others said they’d never been to one and one asked What’s a Buc-ees? to which another said “YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF BUC-EEES!!?? It was followed everything chiming in to give a hilarious description of Buc-eees. To which the unknowledgable one said “I think I’m fine not knowing what it is.”
Because it’s GINORMOUS! As is 100 gas pumps. The building is Walmart sized and is a cross between a Cracker Barrel gift shop (lol I now see that above) and a gas station plaza. And the cute mascot is everywhere. And I found their prices to be pretty good on their merch. They even had running athletic wear! I want to say the shorts were $15-20. Seemed to be decent quality. And the wall of beef jerky… And a fudge shop area… And even kitchen wares… Pretty much anything and everything…
My friend who didn’t know is also from California.
It just seems more national to me than something like Buc-ees which is (for now) definitely regional. But, maybe golf isn’t as universal of a sport as I thought. I felt like Tiger made it much more mainstream, but maybe not. I think of The Masters as a national thing, not a regional thing. Maybe such knowledge is simply more interest driven. As I wrote before, this friend is not into ANY kind of sports at all. I feel certain she’d know what the Super Bowl and World Series are, though. And, to be fair, there is more than one big golf event. I had to live in England before learning to call the British Open simply, “The Open.”
I’ll post my Masters outfit on the dressing young thread.
