Oh, I was hoping you said nap.

In November this became very popular. So popular it basically overtook my news feed on facebook. (Thanks, intellectual "news", now I have to sort through these re-posts to find everyone's overeating Thanksgiving updates.)  I scrolled through the post looking at the blank and mislabeled maps. I read the comments people had left like "It's okay, we'd all probably struggle to fill out a map of Britain." Maybe I'm alone in saying this but, I would have struggled with filling in the states of America as well.

I'm not exaggerating when I say that there are times in my day where I have to legitimately ask myself, "is that a state?" New England...state? Region? Who knows? NOT ME!

Don't even get me started on things outside of the U.S. I say "things" because, as you probably could have guessed, I don't know maps! I don't know places! States? Country? Providence? Territory? Tell me the name of the place, I could maybe guess what continent it's in. That's about as far as it goes. Don't ask me to identify the continents either because that just won't happen.

I have given this lack of knowledge some thought. If I ever have children, they are going to do terrible on their homework. The most help I can offer is, "Did you google it?" Most of the time when worldy/geographically centered topics come up I just nod along, laugh when everyone else laughs and hope no one asks me directly to contribute. Note to anyone who is in a similar situation: if you're asked to share and don't know what to add, just make a Miley Cyrus reference. There's almost always something that can work. I don't know how I made it through the three history classes I've taken in my life.

I guess I should just stick to the maps that I know.