Well we are on Vancouver Island and having a great time. Went to Butchart Gardens today. I pulled a "Leonard" though. We were standing next to this HUGE redwood tree that was just planted in 1934. My how it has grown!! So I turned to the guy next to me who spoke some form of English and said: "Boy, it really must have drank it's milk." The conversation went downhill from there. He said "drank its what??" I repeated myself, he repeated himself and we both repeated ourselves a few more times. Then he said "milk?" and looked very odd at me. He was obviously not from an English speaking region that promotes milk and dairy. Meantime a large group of Chinese near by took it all in and were repeating "milk, milk, milk...." and pointing at the tree. Jo just walked away and I followed.
Ah the joys of traveling in a foreign country where the people speak a different language.
Larrie
89 Ford RB
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Larrie
Read detailed trip reports, see photos and videos on my travel blog, luinil.com.
Current van: 2002 Ford E350 extended body camper with Colorado Camper Van pop top and Agile Offroad 4WD conversion.
Did you ever see a visitor from another country feeding a squirrel in the park and speaking to the animal in their mother tongue. Then the first thing you think is, "That's silly. The squirrel won't understand that foreign language."
Dogs in Korea don't say "bark bark". They say "king king." So of course American squirrels only understand English since that is the language they speak.
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Mac McIntire
2003 Ford E250, 5.4L V8,
So I turned to the guy next to me who spoke some form of English and said: "Boy, it really must have drank it's milk." The conversation went downhill from there.
Oh man, I grew up around that kind of talk. Like, "Wow, that beer's loaded with a lot of vitamin P" or "Say, what breed of cat are you anyway".
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