So I think one of the funniest things that happens when you are a part of a global team

are all of those things you learn about other cultures and the assumptions that you make that you realize were total bullshit,

right? Like you realize you were totally wrong. You know what I mean? Like really do all

Belgians love waffles? I mean, you know, things like that. Is that all they eat? You know what I

mean? But it's things like that, right? Oh, there's just all French fries in France. Wee, we, we, like that, right? Oh, gosh. Well, what of the funniest stories

was a coworker of mine who made an assumption about Americans, right? And so she, they were telling

me about how they went to a business dinner, real fancy business dinner and, you know, large team there and the executive, like the head guy, who is American, came into the dinner and, you know, he's the highest of the hierarchy there, right?

And he sits down with a very international

team, people from everywhere, right? And this person in particular, from Europe. And so he sits

down and grabs a glass of water from the table, puts it under the table, and starts washing his hands at a professional business meal.

Air quotes on washing, because there was no soap, okay?

That was just like, it was a bird bath.

He was bird bathing.

Hore bathing.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, under a business meal table. And so what's

funny, though, is that this person was sharing that story with me kind of like, so that's what

you all do, right? This is a thing. It's a cultural tradition, a norm. It's a cultural norm in America that we don't use soap and we just bathe under a professional

business dinner table, right?

We just bird bath it up, you know what I mean?

And so just the thought of that, like everybody watching this at the table, uh, and him doing that,

doing that bird bath there with this mixed crowd. And they all walked away like, probably

like, uh, Americans wash their hands like this.

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