yet another.
Every September my town has a farm festival to celebrate its founder, who came from Scotland. For the past five years I've volunteered there to dress in period clothing and give tours of the original farmhouse. Most of the questions I get are from small children, innocent ones like "where's the toilet?" but I've gotten my share of retarded questions:
woman- "So why aren't you all wearing kilts? I thought you were Scottish?"
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me, start of tour- "Blue came from Aberdeen, Scotland, and built this farmhouse in 1825--"
man- "Scotland stole our name(town's named Aberdeen)?!"
me, rest of group- "..."
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me- "In the early days, Aberdeen's main source of income was naval stores, especially turpentine.."
girl, about 17- "What kind of stuff did they sell at Turpentine?"
( trintrin has jam for blood, Sun 9 Jan 2005, 20:20, Reply)