Some People Say the Darnest Things...
Yesterday, while I was working at this office, a nice old lady approached me and kindly asked, "Are you from around here? You look a mix between an Oriental and Mexican." I replied back with a smile, "No ma'am, my heritage is Filipino. From the Philippine Islands." She replied back, "Is that near Mexico, because I've never been there?" My jaw dropped after hearing that last sentence and I was kind of shock from hearing that. She probably didn't know much about the Asian/Pacific Islander people so I told her, "No, it's in Asia, beneath Japan and Taiwan."Then she said, "Oh wow a new country that I can learn about." That made my day because she was so eager to learn something new even at her age, she must've been in her 80's.