^^ yah we have the same problem at our office. this street guy came in asking to use the bathrooms on our floor (4th flr) but they're locked. he come's and asks us for the key but we tell him it's for clients only. so he says he wants to be a client. the receptionist asks him do you know what we do (we're an architecture office). then the guy just leaves.

this was probably the most insulting thing I ever heard when i went down to the states.

Woman "Are u from Mainland China?"
Me "No, I'm from Vancouver, Canada"
Woman "Oh Wow, u speak such good enlgish. u must practice it all the time. They have chinese ppl in Canada? Does your family run a sushi restaurant?"

d*mn americans!!!

omfg what the hell do they smoke down there that is worse than my experiance....

seriously I would have answerd with ..... um the only chinese ppl that live in canada are slaves..... I excaped and ran for the boarder, I am now headding to south america..... maybe mexico I hear its a good place to live.....;)

haha omg lmao

:haha: I was gonna post the same thing!!!

Hmm. I work at Ikea.

I once got a question

"Umm.. where's the furniture?"

"do you guys have A T M machines?"

"do you guys have movie theatres?"

this coming from a Stanford grad... its amazing how ignorant american's can be to canada.

I work at the airport and chatting w/ some guy, he said he took a domestic flight from Boston to Toronto...

after a 94 minute movie a friend asks

"do you pay more for longer movies?"

"What time will it be in 24 hours?"

When I worked at A&W with Ef-8 back in the day an old lady comes in one day...

old lady: "do you bottle your own pop here?"
Me and Ef-8 look at eachother, then look into the back of the store, look at eachother again
Ef-8: "Um, no maam."
old lady: "do you sell pop by the quart?"
Me and ef-8 look at eachother again; obviously we both have no idea what a quart is.
me: "I don't think we do ma'am"

OMG! that would've been SO TOTALLY AWESOME if you said that. hahahahahahah, of man, i could only imaging the look that you woudl get! hah

some guy whom i had to do a school project once said to my friend's mom while she was picking all 3 of us up, y didn't ur mom drive the bmw? what's a Z4? it's nice =]
i don't think u could get stupider than that

"whats in a cucumber roll?"

or

lady: hi do you guys have any california rolls?
me: yes, we do.
lady: ...
me: ...ok, so do you want one?
lady: no.
me: ...


in case you were wondering, i used to work at a sushi place.

i also work in a restaurant, ive had;

from american customers (yes more than once)
after recieving the bill;

them:
Is this in American money?
me:
what country are you in?
them:
Canada
me:
...

This next one was also american, happened this past year:
first off, they tried to order a hamburger 'rare' which is quite common in the states, but i told them we can only do them 'well.'
Lady:
Is this hamburger made from beef?
me:
yes it is 100% canadian beef.
Lady:
it tastes different.
Lady's husband:
Oh, its cause they have mad cow disease up here.

i get so many stupid questions, i cant remember all of them lol

LOL for the last one I would have replyed ... um no we sell all our cows that are infected with mad cow to the US so that we dont have to deal with them....:D

the showroom manager at the dealership tries to wash his own car.... takes the powerwasher out to wash the car, presses the trigger and the watter drizzles downwards

Him: "This powerwasher isn't very powerful eh? I was expecting a load of pressure."
Me: "...umm..yeah about that, you may want to turn on the compressor first."
Him: "what? isn't it always on? ... so.. where's the sud?"
Me: "that would be the tub that says sud on it"
Him: "...right."

So i was working at the Bay as a vendor selling this toy, which is not important. and they need you to wear a badge or tag that says "vendor".

so one day some guy comes up to me and asks if my name was "vendor". which it is not of course.


i thought that was kinda funny.

Old Lady - "Wow your english is SO good, how long did it take you to learn?"

Me - "I was born here"

Old Lady - Blank look on her face

So i work at a restaurant that serves breakfast, (bacon and eggs etc.)

This one guy asked me;

"Where do your eggs come from?"

so i responded;

"... from chickens"

At first i thought he wanted free range or egg beaters or somethin, but nope, he actually wondered if our eggs came from chickens... uhh, sorry but we're fresh out of ostrich

an old lady once asked me at a bus stop while i was waiting for the bus .... "has the bus come by yet?"

yes you old hag... and i'd be standing here because?

[edit] i didn't actually say that..... i jes thought it

haha i remember this one time, some one asked me where the washroom was, and a matter of fact tit was like right there.... but ive done that befor too...lol and my friends have asked me if im home and call my home phone, lol.. and moms asked me how come it doesn't work after buying some thing ew.. and im liek battires?

i work at ihop
international house of pancakes...

so many ppl have asked if we serve breakfast...
or have a breakfast menu..

my friend worked at mc dicks

he was taking orders from the drive thru... and so, after this chick finished with her order
she asked " if she could get it to go "

hahah