Did you know the Canadians call flip-flops, flip-flops? In Australia, we call them thongs. You’d be surprise they were actually women g-strings over there.

I overheard an Australian bloke unravelling his first Canadian trip last year in a bus. You could sense his tone of excitement when he told the story to this other dude beside him about thongs. Just wondering why no one told him that.

This was his story:

I had this conversation with this bloke at the side of the street and he said “Young man, why don’t you come over here, you could see a thong”.

I was surprise at how he could get so interested in a pair of lesser-straps sandles. ‘Whoopee doo,’ I responded. “Why the hell you looking at her thong for?”, I was curious.

He was puzzled to see why I wasn’t remotely interested at the sight of women underwear. He then said that they were sticking out at the top of her jeans.

“The thong was sticking out at the top of her jeans?” At that moment I paused in an attempt to picture a pair of sandles sticking out of a woman’s jeans. Curious, I asked, “What’s the freakin’ thong doing sticking out of her jeans?”

The bloke was becoming a little irritated when I kept on going with the questions. “Look, if you look carefully, you could seriously see her thong.”

“Err… well then she must have loose jeans on. Boy, now where’s the other one?”

“The other what?”

“Thongs, mate! They always come in twos.”

He frowned. “Dude, what do you know about thongs?”

“Well, I wear ‘em.”

By now his eyes were widened by the astounding words that just came out of my mouth. “What the fff..,” he struggled to hold back the last word, to which I assumed was ‘fuck’. “Do you?”

“Yea, mate. What’s wrong?”

“When?”

“When I’m feeling hot.”