One of the agents was confused just now. She has customers from Brazil, and they just told her it was 100F there this time of year. She didn't understand until I told her that "Brazil is below the equator. It's summer there now." This was confirmed by the customers.
"Really? I can't believe it! When is it winter?"
"When it's our summer."
"Really? I can't believe it!"
And, yes, she was utterly serious. Scary, no?
In other news, I am bored. You know what that means.
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 tigerbright :: (no subject) [+4] ratcreature :: (no subject) [+5] sekhmets_song :: (no subject) [+1]
December 2010
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How can anyone *not* know that seasons depend on the hemisphere?!? That's like not knowing the earth is round or something. O.O There are also people who don't know the seasons are caused by axial tilt, so, nothing surprises me any more. My father had a similar encounter in a New York taxi once. He'd just got off a flight from Australia, and started one of those standard weather conversations you have with taxi drivers: I forgot that Dad was on summer break until he remined me, but I wasn't boggled by it. Interesting... "Brazil is below the equator. It's summer there now."Actually, the equator passes through Brazil, so some of it is above the equator (it goes from 5°N to 33°S). But since most of Brazil is tropical, it doesn't matter whether it's above or below, the concepts of "summer" and "winter" don't apply. The four seasons we know only exist outside the tropics. |
