Politically correct? Probably not. Funny? You betcha.
We have several folks from India on our floor. Some are temporary contractors and some are full time employees. The contractors, I've found, are fairly new to the USA and don't know about many of our holidays. For example, today is Columbus day and our company observes it as a paid holiday.

One of those contractors from India sits on the other side of my cubicle wall, and is normally as quiet as a mouse. I overheard the following conversation between him one of the employees last week:

Contractor: Why do we have next Monday off?
Employee: It's to celebrate the day Columbus discovered the United States.

...pause

Employee: As a matter of fact, he was looking for you guys and got lost.

Man, it's fun to be a fly on the wall sometimes.

RisibleGirl was blabbing on about another adventure on 10/13 at 01:40 PM

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AnnieOfBlueGables wrote:

That's pretty cute. It sounds like something I would have said. ha ha ha
~a


  

Scaramouche Jones wrote:

I once worked with a guy called Hassan, and one day accidently called him Hamas - which isn't so much his name, rather a terrorist organisation intent on Holy Jihad... :D


  

maloneokie wrote:

That is funny. PC - probably not but oh well.


  

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poopie wrote:

Poor thing did get kinda lost..but then he found us in the end wink


  

heidi wrote:

ha ha! That's funny! :D


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