Hong Kong - That's Japan right?

Just had an hilarious call with a Californian-based very senior Client (professional lawyer).

At the end of the call, he was stating how hot it was in California. I said it was pretty hot in Hong Kong too ... but thankfully, we'd not suffered the forest fires prevalent in California right now.

He then said that he was planning to visit "our neck of the woods" in November. Would we "like to take him out for Japanese food" as he "loves sushi". I said "sure", but "you know Hong Kong is China, not Japan right?".

He thought I was pulling his leg. It took a few back and forths to convince him. He was a might embarrassed I must say - then he 'fessed up he'd not been out of California "much".

And he's a lawyer for a large multinational. It does make you wonder about their education system. Has he never looked at a map of the world for Pete's sake?

I was on the call with a colleague - a Hong Konger who went to Uni in California. He told me that he was often asked by Americans which US State HK was in!

Unreal. But good blogfodder.

M