very, very sad

[lindaj]

"Hello, United Airlines."
"Hi, I'd like to book a ticket from Boston to Santa Fe."
"Is that Santa Fe, Argentina, or Santa Fe, New Mexico?"
"Oh, sorry. That would be New Mexico."
"Well, you'll need to phone our International Reservations department."
"And why exactly would that be?"
"Because you want to buy a ticket to New Mexico."

Comments

[tigira.livejournal.com]

Um, ok, I grew up in the SAME educational system as all these folks, and I know that NM and RI are STATES. Oy.

These folks really just must have slept through elementary school. It's the only explanation. And even that I don't get - heck, elementary school WAS fun and games!

[blaisepascal]

Hmm, I guess I was wrong, then. I didn't think RI was a state. I thought it was a Commonwealth (specifically, the Commonwealth of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations).

But I just checked the RI State Constitution, and it's a state, not a commonwealth. It's still "Rhode Island and Providence Plantations" though.

I wonder when that changed, or if I was just mistaken.

[lindalee.livejournal.com]

Massachusetts is a Commonwealth, and I believe there is one other, but I don't know which one it is.

[leenah.livejournal.com]

Virginia.

[blaisepascal]

It appears that Kentucky and Virginia are also commonwealths. I thought there were four, though.

I Got My Basic Education...

[daurdabla.livejournal.com]

...in the UK, where they don't teach the US states/commonwealths/whatever. I picked up my pitiful understanding of US geography along the way; I don't believe I ever took a US geography class.

And I Know New Mexico Is A State.

Grrr...