Staying on a farm in a northern state in early 1980s US of A it wasn't uncommon to be asked questions such as:
Do you have valleys in England?
Do you have color TV in England?
Isn't your money funny?
Perhaps these were jokes, perhaps they were serious, they were definitely tedious.
If only I'd had the presence of mind to say:
Yes we have of that, and we also have these things called cars, they're like a sort of horseless carriage.
A photograph of your authentic Amish using traditional transport, somewhere in Pennsylvania or Ohio
The French call this type of missed opportunity l'esprit d'escalier, and normally it happens much sooner within a 35 year period than this late offering of staircase wit.
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