Roadside's Crash Course (no pun) on geography

[roadside]

This one's short and sweet, but it'll still make the brain cry.

Me=The most handsome and suave roadside assistance phone jockey in the history of roadside assistance phone jockey-ing

SC=Some poor lost soul.....literally
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ME: What city was the car rented from?

SC: V-A

ME: What city sir?

SC: VA...it picked it up in VA!

ME: Okay....*perfectly knowing where his mix up was*...what state is VA in?

SC: Oh...no...I picked it up in Douglas, no Fredrick, no *loooong pause* Fredouglasburg.

ME: Fredouglasburg?

SC: Yeah.

ME: You meand Fredricksburg, Virginia?

SC: Yeah that's it.

Somedays it's better to just stay in bed.

[bigjimaz]

Dang.

I agree that that town wouldn't be easy to remember but you would think it was printed out on the rental agreement that they should have had with them. Duhh

[Food Lady]

Um, isn't that a well-known city, too? I mean, someone says "Fredricksburg" and I say "Virginia," and I don't even know what the capital is, or anything else about Virginia, for that matter.

My roomie works at a call center and has to monitor calls. The suckage the other day was on the part of the employee, who didn't know that brooklyn is in New York, and kept repeating back an account number to the customer, correctly, but inputing it with transposed digits, unable to understand why the account info wouldn't come up, and then blaming the customer for giving incorrect info. What is it with Americans and geography, math, and spelling?

[Broomjockey]

Must... not... bash...education system....

"What planet are you on, sir?"
"The United States!"

"Which state do you plan on returning the car to?"
"France!"
(credit to thegiraffe for posting the link in check it out)

[CaroPhoenix]

Capitol of Virginia - Richmond (which was also the Capitol of the Confederate States during the American Civil War).

Fredericksburg - not hard to pronounce, and is famous for being in the American Civil War.

[Mongo Skruddgemire]

ME: Fredouglasburg?

Oh come on, you know where that is. It's right outside of San FranSacraSeattlementocisco

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[wagegoth]

My junior high geography teacher was retired, career Army. I freak my kids and myself out by how many countries and their capitals I can remember.

[bigjimaz]

I freak my kids and myself out by how many countries and their capitals I can remember.

My problem in doing this is that many of the countries that existed when I was in school (I graduated in 1971) don't exist now.