This stupid (or maybe stoopid, in this case):

Yesterday I was having lunch with two women from the web conference, one from Florida and and the other from Buenos Aires. So we're sitting in the restaurant and the girl from Buenos Aires was explaining to the girl from Florida that she is from Argentina. And the girl from Florida's response? "Do you live in houses there?"

Do you live in houses there? Are you shiitng me? My Sobe nearly erupted out my nose.

Think for a second about what it takes for someone to ask a question as inane as that:

1) Clearly she had never heard of Argentina before. To me this is simply remarkable and hard to fathom, yet it's clearly the case. I'm trying to imagine a scenario where anyone mentions any country in the world to me and I'm hearing it for the first time, but that's just me, I'm a traveling geography freak. But come on, Argentina? Who the fuck hasn't heard of Argentina?

2) She had think that there are countries in the world where people do not live in houses. Every country I've been has had houses. You? I suspect a similar experience.

3) She had to think that it was possible that the girl from Argentina, who flew all the way to San Francsico for a fricking web design conference, did not live in a house. Where the fuck did she think that she lived? In a cave? Shit.

At this moment I very much wished that I had been Argentina, but I haven't (something I hope to rectify in the next few years). Fortunately I do know quite a bit about the country and was able to save some face for us pathetic ignorant Americans.