What Life Must Be Like When You Live In A Foreign Country

We went out to dinner over the weekend. M took me - after weeks of promising and then forgetting - to Outback Steakhouse. It's not the normal place we go when we eat out, we're more of a Taco Bell kind of family. But once in a while we splurge and eat out at a real restaurant. I don't remember exactly how we picked that particular restaurant, but there we were.

Outback Steakhouse is a restaurant that has "and Australian-inspired environment." Their menu has Australian slang, their entrees are named with Australian names. At one point during dinner, M got up to go to the bathroom. When he came back the following very funny exchange took place:

M: What does 'bloke' mean?

Me: Oh, it's Australian slang for 'guy'.

M: Oh, thank God!

Me: Why?

M: The doors to the bathrooms were labeled 'bloke' and "Sharon."

Me: You mean "Sheila?"

M: Yeah, like only women named Sheila can go to the bathroom?

Me: No, it's Australian slang for woman!

M: All I know if that I didn't know which one to use, and I first walked into the 'bloke' one, but I didn't see any urinals so I walked back out quickly!

Still a mystery as to how he figured it out - or if he tried the "Sharon" one too....