When I see others’ souvenirs, I’m always a bit amused as to what people buy or where they’ve been.
At the hostel I was staying at here in Cape Town, there was a Japanese guy who had these Chicago Bulls and New York Yankees stickers on his suitcase. Being a hippie-kind of guy, he made it hard for me to imagine him at a Bulls’ game. Another Japanese guy who spoke VERY little English had on a Brooks & Dunn shirt from Madison, Wisconsin. Try as I did, I could not imagine this guy with his rather tight and high-waisted pants at a Brooks & Dunn concert in Wisconsin.
But you know, I don’t actually know these people. Maybe old boy is a really big sports fan. And other old boy could really put me to shame with his Boot Scootin’ (Boogie).
I mean, I always find it quite funny when new friends are surprised by seemingly normal things to me…like that I drove a truck, that my parents are white, or that I was born with 12 toes. (OK, kidding about the last one)
I actually believed that last one. I knew there was something different about you since the day I “met” you online