A sentence that Heidi wrote reminded me of something ...

Whilst visiting Denver some years ago, I decided to drive up to the Rockies and visited an old mining town there.
The Lady who showed me to the my motel room noticed that I'm not a Yank and asked me where I came from.
I told her Germany because, technically I did.

"Who's the mayor of Germany?" she asked.
I enquired, if she actually meant the Prime Minister or the President?
"What!" she exclaimed, "Germany has a President too!"

After recovering from her shock, she asked me, if the Germans have color-tv.
I couldn't resist telling her that a few old folks still used TVs, but they went out of fashion very quickly, when holographic projectors were introduced.

At her request, I described how the newscaster nowadays stands in the middle of your living-room, visible from all sides and how the cowboys and indians, in those good old John Wayne films, chase each other through the center of your living-room too ...

... she had a tough time getting her head around that one!