I knew a blond Sydney as an undergraduate.
She thought a `cosmetologist’ was a Russian astronaut.
She dropped out and went to Russian astronaut school.
One of my best friends married a divorced mom of four kids. She was an aerobic instructor, among other things I suppose, but they had attended a party once and were talking about the threat Russia still posed the US.
This lady stayed quite until she piped up with,
“And to think we share our northern border with Russia!”
The crowd there laughed, of course, thinking it was a joke, only to the horror of looking upon her distressed, surprised, and then embarrassed face when everyone found out at the same time she actually thought Canada was somewhere over in Europe.
She actually believed that the city just passed Blaine, WA was in Russia.
True story.
They got along famously. My friend had a couple of simple rules in his life, and she fit one of them perfectly it seems. The other was ‘don’t get between him and his food’.