Right. Something for you northerners to have a laugh at expense of a wayward Australian.
Visiting family in Hawaii and daughter drove into car park and up to a tree for shade.
She asked which lot to take to maximise the shade.
So I asked what the time was. Midday. Right I do know that 12:00 on the clock points north at home, South here.
But that's where my logic failed as we all know East is right of north on the clock dial so I duly chose the right parking lot based on that knowledge. Except my disorientated brain forgot I was looking at this arrangement from a northern hemisphere.
We got back to the car and naturally it was almost in full sun, whilst the one on its left was in perfect shade.
Live and learn 😀
Don't feel bad, Richard. My youngest did a summer internship in Sydney,Australia in the summer of 2003. First day there, she and a couple of her roommates, who were also doing summer interships, went to a nearby market to acquire some food. She approached the clerk in the meat department and said she wished to get some sliced ham. He asked her how much and she said, "Oh, about a pound, I guess." Her face went very red when he told her that's not how things are done in Australia.
It took her a while to adjust to everyone driving on the wrong side of the street and needing to look the opposite way first when crossing a street.
Yes driving side of road took me a few days to adjust to, especially at intersections of dual carriageways. And as you mention watching which way traffic flows when crossing the road.
Might sound strange but the language takes an amount of concentration at times.
I hope people were polite to the girls. They sure are here and my foreign ways etc don't give rise to any derision.
Back on the sun bit. I was immediately taken by the length of my shadow. It was so short. 😀
America & Australia .....
two countries seperated by a common language.
" She approached the clerk in the meat department and said she wished to get some sliced ham. He asked her how much and she said, "Oh, about a pound, I guess." Her face went very red when he told her that's not how things are done in Australia."
I apologize for being dense, but I don't understand why she would be embarrassed. Isn't ham sold by the pound in Australia?
What am I missing?:-|
Clyde
Think metric, Clyde.
:-$
Now there's two us, your daughter and me.
I was searching for some kind of off-colour innuendo, like a dope.
Clyde
> Might sound strange but the language takes an amount of concentration at times.
Richard
My wife and I volunteer with AFS, the high school foreign student exchange program, and it might seem funny but we find the Australian english the hardest to understand.
There are a few different dialects in Australia.
I think it's what our ears are accustomed to.
A week or so of concentration helps.
Casual acquaintances are the worst to decipher and if they talk fast or non stop then it's hopeless.
