Was it Mad or something?
In college, driving down the Shenandoah Valley from New Market, I had a half dozen fellow students in the car. One, from New York started hollering "Stop the car!! STOP THE CAR!!".
I thought there was a 'cherry' off a cigarette burning her or between the seat and her tender bits, so I pulled over and shut it down, and fast.
"LOOK!!", she said, "COWS!", pointing out into a field in amazement.
It turned out she had never seen a cow outside of a petting zoo...
It was a quick indoctrination that the experiences some of us take for granted just aren't universal.