"I lived in Korea for a bit. When my mom came to visit I told my Korean girlfriend that it was an American custom to greet older women by touching elbows. I told my mom the same story about Korean customs. It was a thing of beauty. They were not pleased.""I used to work for a cruise line. A passenger once asked if the crew lives on the ship full-time and I said that the crew leaves every night to fly back to Miami and then returns each morning. She walked away satisfied.
""I was at summer camp when my cabin's leaders found a little snake that wasn't doing so well, so they decided to put it in an old terrarium in our cabin. A few of the guys were nervous about it. The next day when the leaders decided the snake was well enough to release, I asked that they keep quiet about releasing it, and when the other guys got back to the cabin and found no snake in the terrarium...chaos ensued.