[Fai Mao]

“I had a boss from Hong Kong. While getting his MS in the US, he was perplexed by the number of people that kept asking what part of Japan was Hong Kong.”

After my interaction with the Discover Card customer service center in Utah, I found out that Guam is part of Japan too.

[COBOL2Java]

BLANKET EXCUSE

Connecticut residents Anne and Paul Rapo love visiting New Mexico, but they have to board their cat, Pangea, before leaving. On their most recent trip, they were greeted by a new kennel manager, who reviewed Pangea’s prior record from their earlier trip to New Mexico. “Will you be leaving the country again?” the manager asked. “We quickly answered that we were going to New Mexico again and not Mexico,”Anne says.

The manager and her assistant stared quietly at each other, then changed the subject to feeding instructions for the cat. Upon returning, the Rapos realized that they had failed to leave their kitty with his favorite Mexican blankets to sleep on.

Anne wonders if that made the staff think they had left the country on their last visit. But Pangea, named for the globe’s onetime supercontinent, might say it’s really all one country anyway.