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DH lived in New Mexico while we were dating. I was talking one day with a co-worker and told her I was going for a visit to see him. She started asking me the "do you need a passport?" ,"can you drink the water?" "do they speak english?" questions. I could not believe what I was hearing. We lived in Texas. It borders New Mexico. HELLO!
Guess what I was in a club in Alaska and when I got carded the lady handed my card back to me and said "where did you learn to speak English so beautifully"...I said "ummm I'm American"....she said
" but your license say New Mexico"....I said, "yeeees, and New Mexico is a State"....."oh!! heehee"
We lived in NM for 10 yrs and this last summer moved to Virginia, right outside DC, it never ceases to amaze me how many kids at my boys school think we came from Mexico. This being an area that claims to have some of the best schools in the country. I guess they don't teach geography here. One kid insists that my 13 yr old is Mexican.
So, I'm catching up on stuff on my DVR last night, watching this past Sunday's episode of "CSI: Miami" and turns out that one of the suspects is driving a rental car with NM plates (!). One of the cops (Frank, I think it was) has the job of calling around to the different rental car companies to see which one rented a car with NM plates - he gets to the third or fourth one and he responds (we are only hearing his side of the conversation) "NO, New Mexico is NOT a foreign country. Unbelievable."
I nearly fell over laughing. Someone writing for that show knows "one of our 50 is missing."
I believe the incident the OP related occurred prior to starting at NMSU, while finishing senior year in HS. As I recall s/he is an out-of-state student.
I wore the shirt again today. Surely enough, I got a "don't drink the water" comment. I'm going to NMSU next year to major in Geography so I don't understand how people don't know this type of stuff.
Would you tell me where you were in the English honors class? I got the idea from something you said in your first post that you were actually in Las Cruces; but that seemed unbelievable.
On another note and to add to the fun, I wanted to say that several years we were watching the Today show. When they brought up the weather map, the borders of Texas and Arizona were touching. NM was not there at all We were rather offended because at the time we were living in Las Cruces, one of my favorite places.
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