I love this, made me smile. Partly the original post, partly the friendly replies, and partly a pleasant memory.

I'm assuming, perhaps incorrectly, that the OP forgot to mention their location as they're just not used to the mad travel frenzy with people from all over the world that you find here.

Reminds me of my first day many years ago in a unix computer lab. I was dumbfounded at failing to access the floppy disk I had just inserted into the computer I was sat at. Eventually discovered that I was actually logged into the computer three down from the one in front of me - a concept I kind of knew about but that never occurred to me as real world till then. Welcome to a networked world!