I was thinking of something funny I saw on a Norwegian travel show called Silje & Sigurd. These two were traveling through the south, from Savannah to New Orleans and bought a old clunker of a car which (naturally) promptly left them stranded on the side of a road. They pushed this gigantic car into a gas station (...I think it was in Alabama) and went in to ask the two ladies working there if they knew anything about cars. One of them said she knew a little and asked them, with that wonderful southern accent, if they were sure there was gas in the car. They said Yes, it did have gas, the needle was on half a tank. So, she went out with them to the car and looked inside and commented on how sometimes the needle on the gas gauge gets stuck when there's dirt underneath it. (It says something about how rare big, gas-guzzling engines in Norway that these two thought they could get from Savannah to Alabama without putting gas in the car.) (Of course they're rare because gas is $4 a gallon here. Despite them big oil rigs in the North Sea. Don't get me started on how expensive Norway is.) So they fill it up and (naturally) it starts right up. So they're making all these little comments to each other in Norwegian, and are obviously feeling rather stupid. (The funny part is coming now.) So Sigurd (not my Sigurd, the Sigurd on the TV show) turns to the gas station ladies and with a perfect Swedish chef voice says "We're visiting here from Sweden."
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