Monday, July 13, 2009
I'm An American't
Apparently in Göteborg this week there is some sort of massive tween soccer tournament with people from aaall over the world.
Believe it or not, there are apparently thousands of kid soccer players right here in the US -- and all of them were on my flight to Sweden.
It wasn't too bad at first; I did have to keep dodging flying soccer balls and listening to shrill shrieks of laughter, but I could deal with that.
What I found harder to put up with was the scene in the Stockholm airport when a good two dozen of said tweens ran into a group of their Finnish competitors, also on their way to the tournament.
"So, are you guys, like, Finnish?"
The Finnish kids just stared.
"ARE. YOU. FINNISH?" Because obviously, asking louder and slower helps, in situtations where the person you're talking to doesn't speak your language.
It progressed to the girls getting right up in the faces of the other team and, gesturing wildly, asking questions like "Do you speak Finiac? You know? Like Finnish people? FINIAC?"
Oh, girls.
This is why other countries hate you.
(I, of course, hate you because you hit me in the head with a soccer ball -- that's an entirely different matter.)
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You do know I mean a fake turtle, right? :)
To go with my collection of pretty turtles from several miscellaneous countries.
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