FUNNY STORY: I went into a US bank yesterday, not my regular bank, and in the course of transacting my business I was required to produce two forms of ID. So I gave the lady, A 20 or 30 something MEXICAN, which makes this more interesting, my Florida Drivers License and my FM3. She told me that my FM3 was expired on 01/11/2011. I was temporarily insane and thinking in "American" until I realized that she was reading the date in "American" as January 11, rather than November 1. When I pointed this out, she admitted coming to the US as a baby and never returned. We had a nice laugh.
Wow, TJ, I learned something from this (which I'll probably forget when I need it) as I didn't know there was a standard. But in the US there is, eh? Here in Canada, there isn't and it's a problem sometimes. Eg...I buy something here from a store a while ago, and the receipt says 2/1/2009 and I wonder if that item is still under its 2 year guarantee. If it's bought Jan. 2nd, it's not - but if it's Feb. 1st it is. The day/month thing here is unclear. Probably cuz we're half Yank, half Brit, as in we can write busses or buses, say zee or zed, etc. Plus we're metric when it comes to speed, 100 km/h AND imperial when it comes to height, 5 ft, 7 inches. Then again, all our packaging must come in 2 languages by law, French and English. There's no hope for this country, only our hockey teams........wait, the Yanks beat us in the Gold Medal game at the World Juniors last month........
Same thing happened to me just last week! I was applying for a credit card and had to show my FM3... they denied me a credit card supposedly because my FM3 had already expired. It says 1/8/2011 (1 de agosto, 2011), but for some reason they read it as January 8... aren't we in Mexico?
