Sadly, I've had similar conversations.

From Not Always Right:

Customer: “Where are you?”

Me: “I am in Bangor, Maine.”

Customer: “Oh. Is that in New York?”

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[Ms Avery]

*facepalm*

[Katie]

I have too, haha...so many of them...My brother has also had a few conversations with people in Texas (during his time in boot-camp)revolving around the fact that they asked if we had any paved roads in Maine yet. My brother kind of looked at them with this O_o expression and said "Yes!" (Of course, once you get up to Madawaska...there are some dirt roads - most are paved though.

Got to love upper Maine....

[tanita]

Well, sadly, there are a number of people who don't realize that Scotland isn't England... isn't Ireland... is IN the UK, has people who drive cars and don't all wear kilts and sling bagpipes and live in castles... I think we're all kind of clueless geographically for some reason.

Of course, if one more person asks me if, because I'm from California, I know any movie stars, I might have to scream.