Overheard in Geneva

Young airport passport checker: You speak French?
Young female business traveler: Yes.
PC: Where are you coming from?
YFBT: Barcelona.
PC: And where are you going?
YFBT: Here, then back to Newark
PC: But where do you live? Geneva?
YFBT: No, in Baltimore, in the States.
PC: But how come you speak French?
YFBT: I work in Africa.
PC: Oh, Africa, of course. Thanks, have a nice day.
Neighboring checker: Why of course?
PC: Duh, South Africa, they speak French there.


Overheard in New York:
Loud suit: And she thought it wasn't organized enough! It was an orphanage in Tanza-fucking-nia!
Suit's wife, laughing: Where did she think she was, Switzerland?

--5th Ave & 57th St